INDUSTRY CAL-OSHA ALERT

  • by gigih
  • 10.28.09
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INDUSTRY CAL-OSHA ALERT

Recently AIM Healthcare Foundation has been the target of aggressive attacks by the Los Angeles County Department of Health and California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA). Motivated by LA County Health's desire to get new funding and power to oversee all adult entertainment production, the governmental effort has focused on AIM because of the central nature of AIM to adult talent.

GOVERNMENT WANTS TO FORCE AIM TO TRACK YOUR PRODUCTIONS

It would be extremely difficult for any government agency to track your company's individual productions and monitor them. Instead, government is trying to claim that AIM Healthcare is an "employer" of talent in order to force AIM to get information about your productions and then reveal this information to the government. This is information that they cannot legally get any other way.

GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BLAME YOU FOR ALL TALENT STDs

Both Cal-OSHA and LA County Health have violated state law by trying to force AIM to reveal private information about performers' private health history. More importantly for you, they are trying to get information about what performers have worked for which companies and when. They want to force your company to take the blame if a performer in one of your movies contracts an STD, such as chlamydia, or gonorrhea, without any evidence that the illness was acquired on your set.

GOVERNMENT WANTS TO MANDATE CONDOMS AND HOSPITAL STANDARDS ON YOUR SETS

If they can force AIM to reveal personal health information and employment histories, two things are likely. One is that your company will be subject to enormous financial burdens, such as dramatically increased medical payments, including for performers who contracted STDs in their private life, but happened to work on one of your movies.
Second, this is part of an agenda to force hospital standards (especially mandatory condom use on all sets, under all circumstances) on the adult production industry because of the exchange of bodily fluids.