Word: osha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor is considering the probe because it received a complaint charging the laboratory with mishandling "blood-borne pathogens"--disease-causing microorganisms or viruses that are carried by blood...
...federal] standard is designed to protect workers who might be exposed to HIV or a virus by handling contaminated body fluids," said OSHA Area Director K. Frank Gravitt on Friday. "We sent a letter telling the University of the allegations...
...other ruling involves worker safety: in 1989 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limited workplace exposure to more than 400 toxic substances. But OSHA didn't make a separate case for each, as the law requires. Though that would have taken decades, an Atlanta court said the limits are invalid. Workers shouldn't panic: it's unlikely that companies that have spent millions to comply with osha's standards will now spend even more to have safeguards removed...
...OSHA still lacks the clout to protect most American workers. By one important measure, the jobsite is safer: work-related fatalities have dropped from 12,500 ten years ago to 10,500 last year. But that is partly because there are fewer jobs these days in some of the most lethal industries, including steel, shipbuilding and logging. Meanwhile, job-related illnesses and crippling injuries are on the increase. "The walking wounded are a part of the cost of doing business," says Bruce Raynor of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union...
...Some want an independent investigative body, like the National Transportation Safety Board, with the power to examine accident sites and set in motion industry-wide changes to save lives in the future. Another proposal in the Ford bill is more to their liking. It would make it easier for OSHA to bring criminal charges against individual employers who are repeat offenders. "Everyone knows that the subway worker who killed five people in New York was indicted for murder," says Joseph A. Kinney, executive director of National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago. "When are we going to be asking for indictments...