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Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page
Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Health and safety on the job remain sources of bitter controversy in the public forums. Businessmen rail against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for its "dictatorial" enforcement of "oppressive" regulations, leading President Ford in early 1976 to demonstrate sympathy for their concerns. Labor leaders deplore the failure of industry and government to stem the toll of death and disablement from work-related disease. Members of' Congress, responsive to pressures from constituents, fill pages of the Congressional Record with reports of both employer vexations and employee tragedies.
Like ships passing in the night, advocates on both sides tend to regard …
Toward Meaningful Protection Of Worker Health And Safety, Joseph A. Page
Toward Meaningful Protection Of Worker Health And Safety, Joseph A. Page
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the annals of job health and safety, 1974 was a signal year. It produced an epidemic of occupational liver cancer associated with vinyl chloride disclosure of a plan to soft-pedal federal regulation of industrial hazards in return for contributions to the 1972 Nixon reelection campaign, and the publication of a brace of exposes decrying the human toll taken by workplace perils. These events furnish hard evidence that the bright hopes raised by passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 remain far from fulfillment.
In the search for reasons for this ostensible failure, two books present …