Special consideration must be given all businesses in regards to cost of implementation not only small businesses though it is understandable that smaller businesses cannot bear the weight of certian regulations, when recent minning tragedies are viewed in terms of death to human workers that scale to ability to support the legeslation must be tempered with the saftey of those in the industry.
Smaller companies may need to have program of assistance from the overseeing government brach to include onsite leason and financil grants or tax relief so that they may emplement the regulations which impact the saftey of all workers.
Doug O.