Brickbat: Licensed To Look

Some Utah sheriffs say that rules proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for volunteer search and rescue teams would impose heavy burdens on volunteers and on the agencies that use them. According to the sheriffs, the rules would require at least 690 additional hours of training for some crews, much of it for scenarios—such as active shooters, structural fires, drug overdoses, and exposure to hazardous materials—that backcountry crews aren't going to encounter.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Time to use work release prisoners instead.

[Vernon Depner]

One size fits all. Or else.

[mad.casual]

Somebody might sign up for volunteer search and rescue service and discover then discover unexpectedly, on the job, that searching for bodies or people who've succumbed to the elements in the back country of Utah isn’t as safe as sitting on your couch.

[Chumby]

Strange that Search and Rescue only occurs in Utah.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

My guess since Utah has its own state OSHA dept, is this regulation is only on federal land (for Utah anyway). So the regulations pretty much falls on the Western states disproportionately due to feds owning most of the land. And since the rule is only proposed, they probably just finish reading it and are now commenting on it commenting ended May 6, 2024 , so story is late or they are late on comments - but OSHA is really late since they reference 9-11-2001 as the justification for the new rules.

[Crackers Boy]

There is absolutely NOTHING good that government can't fuck up.

CB

[MatthewSlyfield]

There is absolutely NOTHING so fucked up that the government can't make it worse.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand."

[commonly attributed to Milton Freidman, but he may not have quite said exactly that and others had previously said very similar things before Friedman]

[Medulla Oblongata]

Quick lookup...

In 1980 the economist Milton Freidman wrote a column in ‘Newsweek” magazine9 that mentioned price regulation and gasoline restrictions in the Persian Gulf country of Dubai. The final sentence comically referred to an insufficiency of desert sand:10

For variety, here is a news item from the Persian Gulf documenting an economic truth: “Dubai, Oct. 30: The petrol [gasoline] crisis in the northern emirate has become more acute and most filling stations have closed down … The three petrol distribution companies in the northern emirate … have sought the permission of the authorities concerned to increase petrol prices.” Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?

[Idaho-Bob]

Just some more extra federal unionized bureaucrats to siphon taxes

[Eeyore]

They want hikers to die?

[AT]

No, they just want to be sure that if a lost hiker is shooting heroin and a maniac with a rifle is stalking him while nearby buildings collapse, that they know what to do.

[Rossami]

Once again proving that there is no problem that government can't make worse.