Word: pendergrass
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Directing OSHA's current policies is Assistant Labor Secretary John Pendergrass, 62, a former 3M industrial hygienist. Pendergrass argues that OSHA's emphasis on encouraging companies to upgrade their record keeping has fostered self-regulation and a new spirit of cooperation between Government and business. "Playing policeman wasn't working," Pendergrass says. "We are nonconfrontational. We can't be the safety director at every plant." Since 1980, he asserts, 1.5 million safety hazards have been eradicated in America's 7 million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created...
...safety practices has grown complex. Meanwhile, though, OSHA's staff of inspectors has shrunk to 1,125, from 1,336 in 1980, and the agency has been notoriously slow to set standards. OSHA has issued only 18 health and 23 safety rules in its 16-year history, which even Pendergrass calls "embarrassing...
...most serious of the OSHA citations involved charges that Chrysler knowingly exposed employees at the Delaware plant to dangerous levels of lead and arsenic. OSHA Assistant Secretary John Pendergrass said the conditions "put workers in jeopardy" and called the agency's action the "only possible response to a totally unacceptable situation." Though the company did not admit any wrongdoing, it will pay the fine and correct the problems. Gerald Greenwald, chairman of Chrysler Motors, the carmaking division, noted that the Delaware facility was not typical of the company's factories. Said he: "Risk of injury or illness to our employees...
HOSPITALIZED. Teddy Pendergrass, 31, rhythm-and-blues singer whose gospel-flavored ballads and sexy disco records have sold in the millions (Life Is a Song Worth Singing, The More I Get the More I Want): with severe neck injuries; in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, injured when he lost control of his Rolls-Royce and smashed into two trees, suffered partial paralysis...