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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 in 1970. The rate of job-related illnesses and injuries declined from 11 per 100 full- time workers...
When Americans report to work each day, many of them encounter hazards as endemic to the job as lunch pails and the morning coffee break. In July OSHA penalized Chrysler, alleging that workers at a Newark, Del., assembly plant were exposed to high levels of arsenic and lead in the paint and soldering areas. (The company plans to pay the $1.6 million fine.) In Chicago, ten of the 5,000 workers who have helped build the so-called Deep Tunnel project, which has created 50 miles of underground passageways for flood and sewage control, have died in construction accidents since...
...packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers in IBP's Dakota City, Neb., plant "stand on treacherously slippery floors covered with animal fat," contends Lewie Anderson, vice president of the 1.3 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. But an IBP spokesman says the company annually pours 1 million lbs. of salt on plant floors to combat such slickness...
...agency's increasing reliance on self-regulation by companies has obvious shortcomings. At a John Morrell meat-packing plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., inspectors found 69 record-keeping infractions in a company log. On a list of injuries that supposedly resulted in no lost workdays: an amputation and a chemical burn. OSHA proposed a $690,000 fine on Morrell in April. After meat-packer IBP learned that its records would be inspected last January, OSHA alleges, the company assembled 50 employees to revise its logs. IBP, which is fighting the case, has been charged with 1,038 instances...
...holes" in the shield, including one above Antarctica that approaches the size of the continental U.S. As the world's ozone layer deteriorates, the sun's radiation could lead to a dramatic increase in skin cancer and cataracts, along with a lowered resistance to infection. It could damage plant life, both directly and as a result of a general warming trend; that warming could lead to a disastrous rise in sea levels...