https://www.businessinsider.com/how-underfunded-understaffed-osha-will-enforce-vaccine-mandate-2021-9
"It's always been true with OSHA that, especially relative to other government agencies, it's just woefully understaffed," professor Matthew Johnson, a labor economist at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, told Insider. "From the outset, they've been kind of underresourced both in terms of their manpower, in terms of the inspectors, and they've also always been very limited in the size of penalties that the agency can levy on employers they catch violating the law."
selective enforcement on industries?
Conti said OSHA could optimize its limited resources with targeted enforcement to "high-violation industries" with documented histories of flouting COVID-19 safety measures, like meatpacking, and areas of the country with the lowest vaccination rates.
and from the 0bam admin
public shaming
"The threat of bad publicity is a really big deterrent to get companies to comply with OSHA regulations," Johnson said.
Under the Obama administration, OSHA rolled out a strategy of issuing press releases shaming companies that were fined $40,000 or more, the highest end of OSHA fines. While the policy fell to the wayside under Trump, Johnson's research found that a healthy dose of public shaming may be one of the most effective tools in OSHA's toolbox.