Word: osha
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...West, is only the best known of Reagan's "fox in the chicken coop" administrators. Before he was named head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Thome Auchter served as spokesman for a construction company owned by his family that had been cited 48 times by OSHA for safety violations. Two lobbies that have fought hard against meat inspections now have former executives high in the Agriculture Department: Assistant Secretary C.W. McMillan of the National Cattlemen's Association and Deputy Secretary Richard Lyng of the American Meat Institute...
...OSHA, which has been criticized for failing to set a standard of maximum dust concentrations in grain elevators to avoid spontaneous explosions, blames OMB for the delay. In fact, all but three of 22 new safety rules proposed by OSHA have been blocked by the budget agency. "OMB has no technical knowledge," contends Thomas Seymour, OSHA's deputy director of safety standards. "They get their slant from contacts in industry...
...OSHA. Candidate Reagan loved to regale audiences with tales of the agency's absurdities, such as its instructions on how to climb a ladder ("Begin by facing the ladder"). President Reagan has backed away from his goal of dismantling OSHA, but he has checked its zeal. "They've succeeded in gutting enforcement," charges Peg Seminario, associate director of health and safety for the AFL-CIO. Between 1980 and 1982, OSHA reduced its workplace inspections by 17%, follow-up inspections by 87%, citations for willful violations by 91% and penalties...
Officials from Perini the MBTA, the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industry and the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) are independently trying to determine what caused the crane to turn over...
...step taken by the Administration last week. After resisting for a year, the White House authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require that all chemical containers carry a label describing what health hazards they pose and what to do in case of exposure. The new ruling, said OSHA's Michael Volpe, will help protect some 9 million workers from toxic hazards in the workplace...