...Sherry I. Brandt-Rauf; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf Recent court decisions have stressed the necessity for cost-benefit analysis in evaluating Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) standards, thus raising difficult ethical questions which this paper analyzes using classical approaches...

... are largely explained by increases in Workers' Compensation greater than inflation and by inspections made by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Rises in Workers' Compensation greatly increased the claims for injuries, while OSHA citations substantially decreased objectively verifiable...

...James C. Robinson; Dalton G. Paxman In 1989, after almost two decades of substance-by-substance standard setting, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated its Air Contaminants Standard, imposing new exposure limits for 376 toxic substances encountered in U.S. industry...

...). Improbable though it would have seemed to members of the massive majority in Congress which voted for its creation, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has become a cause cClPbre. When the act establishing OSHA was passed in 1970, the goal of securing for Americans a workplace...

.... 1988 . The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation: How Overregulation Causes Underregulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT press. Robinson , James C. , and Dalton G. Paxman. 1991 . Technological, Economic, and Political Feasibility in OSHA's Air Contaminants Standard. Journal of Health Politics, Policy...

... (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), 321 pp., $35.00. Although all the regulatory agencies concerned with health, safety, and the en- vironment have been the frequent targets of economists armed with the slings and arrows of cost/benefit analysis, none has been more regularly maligned than OSHA...

..., Policy and Law counterparts in most other countries, lives in permanent danger of a challenge in the courts to its regulations or actions. Every one of its major regulations has been so challenged. In order to defeat such challenges, OSHA has had to proceed with extreme slowness...

... of the relevant government agencies -Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the U. S., and Arbetarskyddsverket (ASV) or Worker Protection Board in Sweden. In both societies, the values of the professionals who administer these agencies are considered to be the most important determi...

... (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), 321 pp., $35.00. Although all the regulatory agencies concerned with health, safety, and the en- vironment have been the frequent targets of economists armed with the slings and arrows of cost/benefit analysis, none has been more regularly maligned than OSHA...

... Safety and Health (NIOSH) , in the Department of Health and Human Services, has responsibility for develop- ing criteria, while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in the Department of Labor, sets standards guided by the criteria proposed by NIOSH. However...

... direction when OSHA considered excluding unionized work- sites from coverage under its hazard communication standard, but rejected the notion based on the compatibility of purpose of the NLRA and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Joint unwnlmanagement committees The primary mechanism...

...) the blood lead level should be maintained below 30 mg/lO g. Although there is no evidence for a “no effect’’ level, OSHA believes the risk of reproductive effects would be minimized at this level. Although susceptibility of male and female workers is a controversial point, the lead...

..., 1981), 185 pp., $19.95; David P. McCaffrey, OSHA and the Politics of Health Regulation (New York: Plenum Press, 1982), 192 pp., $24.50; Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 221 pp., $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paperback...

..., watching the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for any signs of giving in to the more lax standards desired by industry. Labor leaders saw red whenever industry purported to trade off worker well-being for cost sav- ing or the promise of general economic prosperity. For labor, any...

... Act. Notre Dame Lawyer 52 : 802 -36. Baram , M. S. 1984 . The Right to Know and the Duty to Disclose Hazard Information. American Journal of Public Health 74 ( 4 ): 385 -90. Boden , L. , and D. Wegman. 1978 . Increasing OSHA's Clout: Sixty Million New Inspectors. Working papers...

... is an article by Holmberg and Winell, comparing threshold limit values in the United States and Sweden for 200 chemicals. I noted in my book, however, that most of OSHA’s threshold limit values were adopted in one fell swoop at the beginning of the agency’s existence, without going through rulemaking...

..., actual practices, policies, knowledge, and expec- Richter Worker’s Right-to-Know 341 tations are in a period of flux; perceptions of the right-to-know issue are hesitant, partial, and fleeting, and obligatory disclosure clauses, such as U.S. OSHA clauses requiring...

... Consequences of Involuntary Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Public Health Service. U.S. Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 1994 . Indoor Air Quality Hearing Schedule: Participants in the Public Hearing on OSHA’s Proposed Standard for Indoor Air...

... the “bricks and mortar approach” to health policy. His frequent comparisons of programs illuminate not only the programs but the meaning of the political variables, as when he compares the National Health Service Corps and Hill-Burton as credibility building mechanisms, or OSHA and Medicaid...

.... In the end, OSHA acted too quickly and set a strict standard that was far in ad- vance of what industry had demonstrated it was capable of achieving. This evaluation of the American standard-setting process is open to dispute. OSHA’s final standard of one part per million is a bit stronger than any...