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Regulatory Partnerships: Good or Bad? (Part 2)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 - 12:47
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John M. Kamensky
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 12:42
For example, Vice President Gore’s reinvention lead, Bob Stone, noted in 1998 that: “In Kansas City, the OSHA team offered training and a voluntary self-inspection to meatpacking companies with high injury rates. Working in partnership with OSHA, these companies reduced lost workdays by 15 percent. Even better, in response to their training, the employees identified and corrected 840 workplace hazards – far more than [OSHA] inspectors ever could.”
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Regulatory Partnerships: Good or Bad? (Part 1)

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 - 13:55
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John M. Kamensky
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 13:53
Three recent IBM Center reports present a different perspective, showing the value of regulatory partnerships.  These reports offer lessons learned on how to create and effectively maintain regulatory partnerships so they don’t result in the failures highlighted in a penetrating Washington Post article “
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John,
There is an overlooked obstacle to improving compliance with regulations on safety, environment, drugs, and other issues. It is that, while the regulators are experts on their subject matter, too few have any experience on the public's side of the regulations (the receiving end). This lack of understanding of the business world, especially small business, leads them to write rules that the regulated do not understand. Similarly, with regards to benefit programs, the rules may be too difficult for potential beneficiaries to grasp. It brings to mind the Biblical injunction against putting a stumbling block before the blind. -- Ed Stern

09/29/2010 - 09:29
JKamensky

Hi Ed - You're right! And what's timely is that the Senate passed the Plain Writing Act earlier this week. The House has already passed similar legislation. Maybe the two bills will be reconciled after Congress returns from the mid-term elections since support for this is bipartisan.

Asking citizens to voluntarily comply means they have to understand what they are to comply with!

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09/30/2010 - 16:09
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Thurgood Marshall, Jr., is Partner, Bingham McCutchen, Washington, D.C. He served as Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary in the Clinton administration. He also served as Director of Legislative Affairs and Deputy Counsel to Vice President Al Gore.


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