Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safety standards have resulted in a series of diseases among high-tech workers, including skin-related problems, respiratory ailments and cancer. High tech industries are believed to have an illness rate three times as high as the average industry...
...nation gets sucked up in the high tech craze, it is becoming clear that something is wrong--dangerously wrong. Many experts warn that the accidents experienced thus far by workers in the computer and silicon chip industries are only the tip of the iceberg. The reason for this gloom: the government has not adequately monitored high tech companies, and it shows no signs of starting to do so. And the companies themselves are using more and more toxic chemicals in the production of technology...
...perfect example of OSHA's inability to insure safe working conditions for high-tech workers is its inability to prevent firms from expanding the use of gallium arsenic "super chips"--the fumes from which killed John Zemotel. These chips are expected to enable computer companies to build machines that operate at speeds five times as great as the current generation of silicon-powered computers. The use of gallium arsenic, fatal in certain amounts, is thus expected to grow by 56 percent between...
...market, it would not have the power to do so. OSHA can only prescribe safety standards--it cannot out-law certain types of technology. Thus, barring a public outcry against the technology, production of chips seems destined to follow the inexorable and fatal growth pattern the High Tech Industry predicts...
...European market and isolating consumers behind political boundaries. Even some of the biggest companies-The Netherlands' Philips, West Germany's Siemens and Italy's Olivetti-do not have access to large enough markets or the resulting economies of scale to justify the cost of independent high-tech research and product development...