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Important OSHA hearing this Thursday.
Posted March 15, 2010 by Darrah Ford
Categories: Porn News, Porn Star, STDs
Someone sent this in to me. Thank you!
On Thursday March 18, OSHA will hold a hearing to determine if they will create an advisory panel to amend the blood borne pathogen standard (section 5193) to be more specific for the adult industry. The standard (5193) as written is tailored for the medical community, but it does not exclude the adult industry.
This is going to be the most important event in the adult industry since the Miller, and Freeman decisions. It is imperative that all segments of the industry be represented at this hearing, producers, directors, performers, AIM, agents, and the FSC. While the FSC and AIM will certainly be present, it is performer testimony that will carry the most weight. But the main question is, Will performers testify?
Why is it so important for performers to testify? That is simple. Performers are the only people directly affected by STD’s on the set. Company owners, producers, directors,agents, and FSC lawyers are not the ones getting STD’s. It will look very suspicious if the only group of people not represented at the hearing are the very people who are affected the most. The FSC will not be there to speak on behalf of the talent, they will be there to speak on behalf of the production companies, and there only concern is to protect the producers right to produce porn.
Is this a good or bad thing? Contrary to popular opinion in the adult industry, this could turn out very good. If this panel to revise 5193 is created, they may end up coming to a compromise that does NOT require condoms for all sex acts. Then again, the exact opposite may happen. But without input form performers, the panel will surely go for the most draconian measures. If performers do not testify the AHF will surely make the argument that the performers were intimidated into not testifying, and they will make the argument that if performers did testify it would be the end of their careers.
As the law is written now, there is no doubt that the industry is in violation of section 5193. Only because of the lack of enforcement does the industry get away with breaking these laws. The handful of times that companies have been cited have all ended with the porn companies paying large fines.
Will the new LATATA be present at the hearing? Will they encourage their talent to testify? If they don’t, they will have no one to blame but themselves if OSHA decides on the most draconian measures. I think that LATATA should publicly advocate for the performers to testify, as well as testifying themselves.
Don’t leave it up to the FSC to speak for the industry. They have only the interest of the large production companies to protect, and rightfully so. Those are the ones that fund the FSC.
This day will go down in history for the adult industry. Will the entire industry be represented at this hearing, or only the large production companies? This is an opportunity for performers to have their say, whether they support more protections or not. No matter how you feel, this is the time to speak up. The industry will have no one to blame but themselves if they do not have all segments of the industry represented at the hearing. If performers do not show up, that will say more to the government panel than all of the FSC, AIM, and producers testimony combined. Performers are the ONLY people affected by this. For performers not to be present will, in my opinion, be the final nail in the coffin for the adult industry as it is today. Exercise your right to speak, but don’t complain if you just sit on your ass and let others fight the battle. The industry needs to show up in force at this hearing.
Where’s it at, Darrah?
Who gives a shit about OSHA Hearing? Let them have their little conspiracy meeting and *demand* the use of condom in porn scenes. In fact, I’d love to see them do that and eventually end up with their thumbs up their ass, making bigger clowns of themselves. Because they simply cannot police an industry as big and complex as the adult: They can never, ever monitor every porn set in Southern California to see how each scene is shot.
On the other hand and for the sake of argument, let’s say they’ll monitor new releases to see in which one condoms are used. Almost all porn scenes are shot indoor, so there’s no way to determine whether a scene in a movie was shot in California or Florida or Europe or what have you; and once AHF and OSHA require Southern California based companies to use condom in scenes they shoot in Southern California, then there’s nothing they can do about scenes shot elsewhere, in other states. Unless they want to take their pathetic crusade nationwide which will cost them more than they can afford. The most effect this mandatory requirement might have, is that companies will use well known locations throughout the valley less, and shoot scenes in new locations. That’s all.
It’s a joke, the whole thing is a big fucking joke.
Steele,
You seem to know everything about the HUGE government conspiracies. You claim to have done all this research and figured out the truth about 9/11, Jfk, and others, yet you cant find out where a public hearing is taking place. So, just for you…
Costa Mesa City Council chambers
77 Fair Dr.
Costa Mesa, Ca.
92626
10:00 am.
If you would like Steele I can post the metro bus schedule to help you get there on time.
And COLON,
Without going into detail, the joke is you.
Why not getting into details, Joe AKA Little G? That’s right, scumbag, your writing style, your animosity towards porn and your poor reasoning aside, your IP address alone reveals more about you than you think. So let’s get into details, shall we, Little G. I. Joe:
For starters, it’s hard to imagine how desperate, insane and pathetic it is for a disabled, retired person to use multiple user names just to post garbage on an internet message forum which you claim has no impact, in your own words, on the real issue.
And speaking of the real issue, explain to everybody on this board what’s exactly the reason for your animosity towards porn, of course other than the fact that you’re a delusional, lonely fuck who doesn’t get laid. While you’re at it, also explain if and when OSHA demands companies to use condom in their porn scenes, how that demand can and will be supervised and executed in an industry as big and complex as the adult? Admit it, G, it’s just a dirty little trick to entertain you and your fellow conspirators; something to convince you that you’ve done something against porn, something to make you feel a little good about yourselves. But in reality, this whole thing is a big fucking joke, and so are you.
Here is your favorite line, G: Fuck you, you fucking idiot loser. Suck my dick.
Go ahead, G, log in with your other user name and tell me you and Joe are not the same person. What a fucking clown.
HAHAHAHAHA
No, Joe No, it wasn’t that I couldn’t find out. Must I research everything myself?
What’s with capitalizing HUGE? You should be pornodud’s closet boyfriend. You’re both retarded and angry.
I don’t claim to know everything, especially things I’ve not researched. The smartest people know that it’s more important to question in socratic dialogue fashion than always act like they know everything
(example: pompous margold monologue)
Einstein had problems getting around by bus, btw. Believe it or not.
“Without contraries there is no progression” – William Blake.
Some quotes I found about OSHA:
“a notoriously toothless agency in the Labor Department” (Mother Jones article: “OSHA: Where good laws go to die”)
“Having lived in CA, I am very aware of the deep corruption of agencies like OSHA.”
“OSHA is useless. Absolutely fucking useless.”
“CALOSHA operates with what is known as “primacy”. CALOSHA is thus the designated agent for Federal OSHA in California. They operate under the same, or stricter, statutory requirements for Federal OSHA as legislated by Congress. You can find the Federal OSHA requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). You can spend the next ten years analyzing OSHA within the CFR, and remain completely ignorant. I’ve done it with EPA regulations.
Understand that every Federal agency operates strictly within, and in strict compliance with, what Congress has specified. Agencies have NO freedom of action that is not specifically stated in the enabling legislation and other amendments passed by Congress.
Most public are unaware of why many Federal agencies seem moribund. The fact is that they are moribund because Congress legislated the limits to their actions to make them moribund. This is precisely the reason that Homeland Security is such a farce as the public views them.
CALOSHA has primacy, and acts within California, as if it is Federal OSHA. Thus, they have to follow, to the letter of the law, as well as in compliance with all Federal court decisions, as does Federal OSHA.
This is why industrial accidents caused by negligence result in fines of a maximun (I don’t recall the exact fine) of a pitiful $7500 for each death, $3750 for each injury, and a requirement to sign a consent order that “they will try to do better next time”. The fines and criminal consequences of violation of OSHA regs are so minimal that even small business can willfully ignore OSHA requirements.
So, CALOSHA is useless, because California has OSHA primacy, and the legal structure of Federal OSHA is useless.
If one has a complaint, take it to Congress. They really don’t give a shit, since the industries that OSHA regulates are the same industries that give massive donations to the appropriate Senators and Representative through a mindless system of not donating directly.”
I think the best thing OSHA can do, and what it should do (and what I predict will happen) is “compromise” and not force the industry to take it’s industry elsewhere. Since OSHA seems to be a whore to money just like the rest of us, it best look out after it’s own interests. There’s some other matters you haven’t solved yet. Do you want to be known for having as your prime example of successful regulation in regards to porn, while at the expense of other things still writhing in there own pitiful states?
Of course, there are other arguments I’m not gonna bring up here, now. I expect everyone will be ready tomorrow.
Don’t forget who’s pushing this; the AHF, proponents of infanticide legislation which forces pregnant HIV+ mothers to imbibe extremely toxic “medicines” (without right to choose) which invariably cause birth defects and/or death.
Well, maybe I’m missing something but that’s my opinion….
Sorry, I forgot to ask.
ok Darrah, maybe next time
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