What Could OSHA Do?
2003

L’ancien regime:

OSHA Reinvention Agenda

Third Party Certification:

Injury Rate Exemptions from Inspections and Penalties

CTA Acoustics:  Learned Nothing, Forgotten Nothing

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PROBLEM AREA:

LIFETIME RISK OF OCCUPATIONAL FATALITY FROM ACUTE TRAUMA

LIFETIME RISK OF OCCUPATIONAL CANCER

COMPARATIVE RISK

INTERPRETING RESEARCH RESULTS

Enforcement of Injury Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements

Bhopal, India,   December 2-3, 1984

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General Duty Clause Enforcement for Health Effects

International Union, UAW v General Dynamics Land Systems Division, 259 US App DC 369; 815 F2d 1570 (1987) cert den 484 US 976; 108 S Ct 485; 98 L Ed 2d 484 (1987)

General Duty Clause Takes Precedence
over Specific OSHA Standards

Present State of Industrial Hygiene:

Fix the PEL’s and Go Back to Work:

Radical Revision:

Distribution of employment by Job Classification:

Distribution of Employment by Sector: