Word: osha
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Three years ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed stringent limits on the amount of cotton dust that manufacturers could have in their plants. The industry objected that the ventilation equipment and other measures required by OSHA's order would run up a crippling tab of $2 billion (OSHA's estimate: $650 million). Turning to the courts in an attempt to get the standards modified, the industry argued that OSHA should have weighed the cost of compliance against the benefits...
...textile manufacturers acquired a potent ally in President Reagan. In February, as part of his drive to deregulate U.S. industry, Reagan ordered a cost-benefit analysis of major Government rules. A month later his Secretary of Labor asked the Supreme Court not to decide the cotton-dust case because OSHA planned to reconsider the disputed standards...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This ten-year-old agency has been the embodiment of runaway regulation. Over the years, OSHA has issued thousands of health-and safety-related rules, right down to specifying the design of stepladders and the location of fire extinguishers in factories. Under Reagan Appointee Thorne G. Auchter, 36, a Florida construction executive, OSHA is changing direction. Auchter promises to stress cost-benefit analysis as the means of achieving the Government's goal at the lowest cost to companies. Says he: "We don't want to end all regulation, but we want...
...Government regulations and other sins of "liberal" economics. During the 19th century there were four financial panics of some severity: 1819, 1837, 1873 and 1893. During this time, there were no federal income tax (except for a brief period during the Civil War), no interfering regulatory bodies like OSHA, EPA, SEC. Yet, at about 20-year intervals, except wartime, our economy collapsed and severe poverty afflicted much of the population. Considering this history, Mr. Gilder's distorted view of American economics should be rejected...
...while back, a young Labor Department aide studied the much hated Occupational Safety and Health Administration and then stepped back to think about it. OSHA, he concluded, was ill-directed, badly staffed and angry over its job. Each morning unthinking and miserable people at the agency marched forth to punish the society that had put them there. Hence the dreadful reputation of OSHA. Eula Bingham, who became director in 1977, worked a near miracle in her time, changing most of all OSHA'S low state of mind. But that was only one small corner of this monstrous federal machine...