Word: osha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony, says Weidenbaum, is that Government freely violates its own regulations. "Federal installations are among the worst environmental offenders. OSHA offices fail to meet OSHA safety standards. And think of Social Security and the Civil Service Retirement Fund being subjected to the standards of ERISA. They would flunk...
...same is true if you go into the neighborhood delicatessen or laundry and ask about the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 'Hey, are you obeying OSHA?' And the guy behind the counter sneers, 'Osha, gosha, forget it!' If the majority of people ignore the law, it will stop the vitality of our country-the voluntarism on which it is built...
...Government gives with one hand and takes with the other. Judging from the figures in one recent study by the American Council on Education, it costs higher education some $2 billion a year to carry out such federally mandated programs as affirmative action and regulations issued by agencies like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). And there are incidental expenses. A single affirmative-action study at Berkeley, for example, generated 50,000 computer calculations. Complains Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California system and now Chairman of the Carnegie Council Policy Studies in Higher Education: "Such details...
Federal health inspectors examined the plant in 1967 and 1970, finding numerous violations of health standards. In 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the company. Inspectors did not wear protective equipment such as respirators for fear of alarming the plant's employees...
...Bingham does not intend to reduce OSHA's staff of 2,700, which has almost doubled in the past five years, or its annual $134 million budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power...