Word: niosh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safety standards (upon demonstration of equally effective systems or procedures), and, if they qualified as small businessmen, apply to the Small Business Administration for longterm loans to offset financial problems resulting from efforts to comply with the OSHA standards. Finally, the legislation established the National Institute of Occupational Safety (NIOSH) within the department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to perform the research necessary to develop adequate OSHA standards...
...were introduced in the House and the Senate. Most would have curbed the agency's enforcement authority; some would have gutted it entirely. Furthermore, in line with the Nixon Administration's attempts to reduce the size and cost of HEW and other federal social welfare programs, OSHA and NIOSH received only small increases in their original, inadequate funding levels...
...enforcement of legislation. In a June 14, 1972 memo to then Labor Undersecretary Laurence H. Silberman (released by the Senate Watergate Committee in July, 1974), OSHA administrator George C. Guenther said that during the 1972 campaign period "no highly controversial standards....will be proposed by OSHA or NIOSH...
First, Congress and the President should give OSHA a clear mandate to perform its assigned task--and back up this political endorsement with increased financial support. Secondly, OSHA should undergo a thorough administrative housecleaning. Third, NIOSH funding should be increased so that safe exposure standards can be developed for potentially toxic substances used in industry...
...linked cases thus constitutes a sort of mini epidemic of the disease. Since such cancers may not develop for at least 15 years after initial exposure, environmental health researchers suspect that more cases will be uncovered. Says J. William Lloyd, of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): "I would suspect that this is going to be the occupational disease of the century...