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...study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health indicates that Labor's figures, which rely exclusively on reports from companies, might badly understate the dangers in American factories. Between 1980 and 1984, for example, Labor reported 19,700 occupational fatalities. But by examining death certificates, NIOSH discovered about 27,500 on-the-job fatalities in the same period...
...Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH to notify...
...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...