Federal Judge Orders SeaWorld Managers to Submit to OSHA Interviews

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http://blog.wdwinfo.com/2013/04/10/...aworld-managers-to-submit-to-osha-interviews/

In a ruling issued on April 4, 2013, a federal judge in Orlando agreed with OSHA and required SeaWorld to make three managerial employees available for interviews. The ruling is an outgrowth of the OSHA findings after Tilikum fatally attacked SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau.

SeaWorld appears to agree with OSHA that trainers should not interact with the killer whale Tilikum. But it recently asked an OSHA judge to clarify the OSHA finding that bars trainers from interacting with killer whales other than Tilikum. OSHA ordered SeaWorld to put up physical barriers or maintain a minimum distance between these whales and the trainers. While SeaWorld maintains it has taken extensive precautions to abate the violations, it wants further clarification from OSHA on how and when SeaWorld must comply with these aspects OSHA’s abatement order. SeaWorld points out that OSHA has not said “what might constitute an appropriate ‘physical barrier,’ ‘minimum distance,’ or other appropriate administrative control . . . and there are no previously-established meanings for those terms in the marine mammal zoological setting.”

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