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June 21, 2000 10:34 AM, EDT

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is under Senate scrutiny for paying 28 contractors $10,000 each to testify at public hearings in support of the proposed workplace safety rules.

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On June 13, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) promised that Congress would investigate the matter. Also, he said he had asked several other Republican senators to support an amendment to the Labor Health and Human Services appropriations bill that would delay implementing the ergonomics standard for a year.

He said OSHA used at least 70 contractors to work on the rule and paid them a total of $1.75 million, including those who testified during the nine weeks of hearings that began in mid-March in Washington, D.C.

The names of the contractors were not identified by Enzi’s office.

For the full story, see the June 19 print edition of Transport Topics. .