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Buildings and Grounds (B&G) will expand its asbestos safety program as the result of a meeting yesterday with an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officer...
...rules and regulations, some of them clearly too stringent and cumbersome. M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner worries about the effects of the extraordinary amount of paper work required to obtain a federal grant. Usually the scientist, or his university, must fill out endless fact sheets crammed with trivial questions. OSHA wants a copy; the Defense Department requires five or six; HEW, DOE, EPA-all of the burgeoning flock of federal alphabet agencies-can and do demand a full response to their questions, or the grant is withheld...
Where newer agencies like the EPA and OSHA are concerned, even the most ardent deregulators want some rules to remain, admitting that it is impossible to put a dollar price on social welfare. But at the same time they argue that there are now too many silly, contradictory and ineffective rules that snarl enterprise in red tape. Above all, they see a need to identify and enact sensible changes that would allow regulation to achieve much the same social goals in a less wasteful way and with a much smaller damage to other, equally important economic goals, including job-creation...
Probably the most criticized agency is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA mandates in lavish detail characteristics that machinery must have rather than simply setting standards for safety on the job and letting companies devise their own ways for meeting them. On construction sites, the agency simultaneously demands that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles have loud back-up horns and that workers wear hearing protectors to cut down noise levels. Although the agency has widely trumpeted its recent attempts to eliminate some of its sillier rules, many still remain...
...state review board attended a meeting where he and the others were warned that their appropriation was not all spent, and if they did not use the funds, they would be cut back next year. A small shop received through the mail a 326-page compendium of OSHA regulations-the advance warning of federal scrutiny. No member of the ten man staff had time to read it. When the OSHA inspector arrived, he disallowed a grace period and fined the owner $60 for not having a guard on a compressor belt used once a year. The area's education...