Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Federal Workplace Ergonomics Regulation and Repetitive Stress Injury PreventionDescription
Affiliated Characters
Event Involvements
Events with structured involvement data
OSHA is invoked as the prior context for Weinberger's stepping down; it provides historical grounding for the scandal and frames the administration's earlier regulatory engagements as politically consequential.
Referenced historically in dialogue as the institutional reason behind Weinberger's earlier resignation.
Serves as an institutional backdrop whose regulations have political and personal consequences for administration figures.
OSHA's prior involvement in Weinberger's resignation colors perceptions of administrative accountability and personal cost in regulatory enforcement.
OSHA is referenced historically by Bartlet as the reason Weinberger had previously stepped down; it functions as background institutional context, linking past policy enforcement to present personal upheaval.
Represented indirectly through Bartlet's reference to Weinberger's earlier resignation over OSHA-related issues.
Acts as an institutional causality in Weinberger's career trajectory; here OSHA's enforcement is part of the causal history rather than a current actor.
Frames the Weinberger story within regulatory accountability and highlights vulnerability of officials to both policy and personal scandals.
Not explored in scene; referenced as the prior cause for Weinberger stepping down.
OSHA is the background context for a prior resignation (Weinberger's earlier stepping down); it frames the moral and bureaucratic history that the President invokes when judging the new leak's unnecessary harm.
Invoked through historical reference by the President, not represented by personnel in the room.
Functions as a regulatory institution whose past enforcement actions shaped personnel consequences; it exerts retrospective influence on reputations.
OSHA's prior involvement with Weinberger provides moral and procedural weight to the President's critique of the leak and to assessments of staff conduct.
Not directly visible in this scene; referenced as having previously produced personnel fallout.
OSHA manifests through Donna's fervent proxy pitch for regulations combating repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel and tendonitis, positioning the agency as a quixotic domestic crusader rebuffed by White House fiscal realism—highlighting how federal worker-safety ambitions clash against lame-duck treaty imperatives.
Via junior staff advocate Donna Moss delivering the regulatory proposal
Subordinate petitioner challenging executive resource gatekeepers
Exposes federal agencies' uphill battle for bandwidth in crisis-driven White House