Word: osha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frayed system is the 21-year-old Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal body that attempts to oversee the nation's 6 million workplaces with just 1,200 inspectors -- down from a high of 1,388 in 1980. A strained operation at best, OSHA was stretched to the breaking point by Ronald Reagan, who came to office persuaded that businesses should police themselves. Under him, OSHA's budget fell one-fourth...
...OSHA has begun a turnaround under Gerard G. Scannell, a former safety chief at Johnson & Johnson who was chosen to head the agency in 1989. After years in which it rarely issued safety guidelines, OSHA has begun adopting them wholesale -- though critics complain it too often approves rules drawn up by the industries it is supposed to supervise. Scannell has also brought eye- catching fines against offenders, including $3.5 million against Arco Chemical and a record $4 million against Phillips Petroleum, after giant explosions at their plants left 40 dead. The agency "is more effective today than it has been...