Originally Posted by genejockey

When my brother lived in North Carolina, he worked for the Consulting side of the NC version of OSHA, which he found somewhat frustrating because if he saw flagrant safety violations, all he could do is advise. And it's not like North Carolina had enough people in enforcement, either. This is the state where 25 workers died in a fire in a chicken processing plant, because the fire doors were locked so employees wouldn't steal product.

When they moved to Hawaii, he worked for HIOSH, the Hawaii equivalent, but in Compliance. That was better because he had enforcement authority, and he could ding unsafe worksites. One down side was that he also had to do fatality investigations, which could be rather upsetting.