By Jesse Russell

A new website seeks to give workers a voice when it comes to corporations “faking” workplace safety. AmericansTakeCharge.com is a project of Tara Hart, CEO of the Compliance Alliance. Hart has been involved with workplace safety for more than 20 years since she witnessed first hand a trench fatality and a crushing incident. Based in Texas, Hart was called on as an expert during the tragedy at the Texas City BP plant explosion where 15 workers lost their lives. She says the important thing when looking at the modern issues surrounding workplace safety is to not focus exclusively on the incidents at BP or the Sago Mine disaster.

[Hart]: BP is just a representative little element of a problem that is nationwide, in all industries, to varying degrees. That is causing all workers to work in fear, be unempowered and be at risk of serious accident or injury without the most senior management support that they deserve.

AmericansTakeCharge.com gives those workers a place to tell those stories, stories that Hart plans to publish in a book called “Faking Safety” at the end of this year as part of an initiative to get the attention of Congress.