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Administration and
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(SEE ALSO GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND LABOR
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NYCOSH documents on the administration
and enforcement of safety and health
 Attorney
General Spitzer Discusses Criminal Prosecution at NYCOSH Meeting
(Update on Safety and Health, December 2004)
Campaign
to Stop Corporate Killing (NYCOSH and the National
Council for Occupational Safety and Health, 2004)
Congress
Stops NIOSH Reorganization, Rejects Bush Proposal to Cut OSHA
and NIOSH Budgets, But Undercuts Respiratory Protection
(Update on Safety and Health, December 2004)
The Crisis in
Safety and Health Enforcement for Public-Sector Workers in
New York State Articles from Update on Safety and
Health, 1999-2001
Researchers
Show That Most Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Are Never
Counted (Update on Safety and Health, May 22,
2006)
State
and Local Government Agencies in New York Get Slaps on the
Wrist for Endangering Employees (Update on Safety
and Health, January 2005)
Administration and enforcement
of safety and health links |
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Abatement
Verification (OSHA Preamble to Final Rule)
Achievements
in Public Health: Improvements in Workplace Safety -- United
States, 1900-1999 (Centers for Disease Control, 1999)
Assessment
and Collection of PESH Penalties, Review of Actions Taken
(New York State Office of the State Comptroller,
1998)
Best
Practices in Workplace Surveillance: Identification and Tracking
of Workplace Injury, Illness, Exposures and Hazards (National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2002)
California
Workers at Risk: A Call for Action (WORKSAFE!, 1999)
Criminal
Prosecution of Employers Who Disregard Workplace Safety and
Health Regulations Resulting in Death, Serious Injury or Illness
(New York City Central Labor Council, March 2004)
Death
on the Job: The Toll of Neglect; a National and State-by-State
Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States (AFL-CIO, 2006)
The
Economics of Safety, Health, and Well-Being at Work: An Overview
(International Labour Organization, May 2000)
Efforts
to Obtain Establishment-Specific Data on Injuries and Illnesses
(U.S. General Accounting Office,
1998)
EPA's
Science Advisory Board Panels: Improved Policies and Procedures
Needed to Ensure Independence and Balance As a result
of serious deficiencies in the procedures for preventing conflicts
of interest among members of Science Advisory Board panels, scientists
and experts who advise the EPA on a broad range of regulations
governing toxic chemicals and air and water quality frequently
have ties to the affected industries or other conflicts of interest.
(U.S. General Accounting Office, 2001)
European
Union Strategy for Promoting Safety and Health at Work (European
Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2001)
Evaluating
the Status of Occupational Safety and Health Coverage of State
and Local Government Workers in Federal OSHA States (U.S. Department of Labor, Office of
Inspector General)
Gauging
Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety
and Health: An Appraisal of OSHA's Analytic Approach (U.S. Office of Technology Assessment,
1995)
Government
Involvement In Health And Safety: A Literature Review
(New Zealand Department of Labour, 1996)
Health
and Safety Demands on the Government (Hazards Campaign
[U.K.])
Hiding
Industry's Health and Safety Epidemic (Labor Notes, October
2000)
International
Labour Organization Standards on Safety and Health
Legislation
to Amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
(Testimony of Eric Frumin, Director of Occupational Safety
and Health, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
Before the House Committee on Employment and Education, Subcommittee
on Education and the Workforce, April 21, 1999)
NAFTA's
Labor Side Agreement: Fading into Oblivion? An Assessment of
Workplace Health and Safety Cases (UCLA Center for Labor Research
and Education, 2004)
National
Emergency Management Plan (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, 2004)
Occupational
Health and Safety in Canada and the United States
(Bureau of National Affairs, 1998)
The
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: A History of
its First Thirteen Years, 1971-1984 (U.S. Department
of Labor)
Occupational
Safety and Health Independent Review of OSHA Citations Act of
2004 (Report of the House Committee on Education and
the Workforce, 2004)
Occupational
Safety and Health Review Commission Efficiency Act of 2004
(Report of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce,
2004)
Occupational
Safety and Health Small Business Day in Court Act of 2004, Part
1 (Report of the House Committee on Education and the
Workforce, 2004)
Occupational
Safety and Health Small Business Day in Court Act of 2004, Part
2 (Report of the House Committee on Education and
the Workforce, 2004)
Ombudsman
Report of Findings and Recommendations Regarding the Stauffer
Chemical Company Site Tarpon Springs, Florida(Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2000)
OSHA
Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration)
The
OSHA Mission -- Found and Lost: A Public Reminder (Center
for the Study of Responsive Law, 2000)
OSHA
policies concerning employees working at home (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, 1999)
OSHA
Should Strengthen the Management of its Consultation Program
(U.S. General Accounting Office, October
2001)
OSHA
35-Year Milestones (A chronology, by OSHA, from 1971
to 2005)
OSHA'S
Complaint Response Policies: OSHA Credits Its Complaint System
with Conserving Agency Resources, but the System Still Warrants
Improvement (U.S. General Accounting
Office, June 2004)
OSHA's
New Recordkeeping Rules (AFL-CIO, 2001)
OSHA's
Revised Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Rules (American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, January
2002)
OSHA's
Standard Setting Process
(Testimony of Margaret Seminario, Director, AFL-CIO Department
of Occupational Safety and Health Before the House Committee
on Employment and Education, Subcommittee on Workforce Protection,
June 14, 2001)
OSHA's
Standards Development Process (The National Advisory Committee
on Occupational Safety and Health's June 2000 report concluding
that "the standards setting process is not working as intended
in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," and
recommending 30 fixes.)
Preventing
Illness and Injury in the Workplace (1985).
(U.S. Office of Technology Assessment)
Public
Report of Review of NAO Submission No. 2000-01 Federal
agency set up by NAFTA to investigate charges of labor rights
violations in the NAFTA countries confirms allegations about
exposure to toxic chemicals and ergonomic trauma in U.S.-owned
maquiladoras (U.S. National Administrative Office,
2001) For a report of the workers' December 12, 2000 testimony
about their working conditions, click
here.
Report
Detailing Occupational Safety and Health Administration Enforcement
Actions from 1972 through 1998 (Public Citizen Health
Research Group, 1999)
Safety
and Health Program Management Guidelines (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, 1989)
Suspending
Safety Enforcement for an Indefinite Period of Time in the Wake
of National Disasters, request for a Congressional Hearing
- “In the aftermaths of the World Trade Center attack
five years ago and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last years, the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration suspended indefinitely
enforcement of worksite safety rules in the affected areas.
Subsequent high rates of serious illness, disabilities, and
fatalities among first responders engaged in rescue and recovery
work at Ground Zero and along the Gulf Coast raise serious questions
about whether enforcement suspension has become OSHA’s
standard practice in the aftermath of national disasters, and
about what the consequences of such a practice might be for
the health and safety of first responders and recovery workers.”
(Letter, July 2006)
Testimony
of Margaret Seminario, Director AFL-CIO Department of Occupational
Safety and Health on OSHA's Standard Setting Process, June
14, 2001 (AFL-CIO)
Tracking
Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Hazards: The NIOSH Surveillance
Strategic Plan (National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, 2001)
Union Rights
to Health and Safety Information and to Access to Employer’s
Premises under Federal Labor Law
Worksite Inspections: Union Representatives
as Detectives (American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees factsheet) |
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Administration and enforcement
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Researchers
Show That Most Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Are Never
Counted — A report in the latest issue
of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine confirms
what safety and health activists have argued for decades: the
federal Labor Department’s statistics for occupational
illness and injury miss two out of three cases that should be
counted. (NYCOSH Update on Safety and Health, May 22, 2006)
OSHA Slow to Issue Standards, Critics Charge
— The wheels of regulation can turn slowly at the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, very slowly. Take the case
of hexavalent chromium.In 1976, a separate research group, the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, asked
that an emergency standard be written to limit workers' exposure
to the chemical compound, which is used to manufacture pigments
and dyes, tan leather and make stainless steel and chrome plating.
(Washington Post, November 9, 2004)
Edison Says Safety Data Were Rigged
— Southern California Edison Co. used faulty workplace
safety data — and in some cases may have suppressed reports
of on-the-job injuries — over the last seven years to
win performance-related bonuses from the state, the utility
acknowledged on October 21.
(Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2004.)
NYS Labor Department Plans Hearings on Track-Worker Safety
and Workplace Security — At its last meeting in
2002, the New York State Labor Department's Hazard Abatement
Board (HAB) decided to schedule public hearings on two contentious
safety and health issues -- track-worker safety and workplace
security. The decision to hold the hearings came after extensive
lobbying by the New York State AFL-CIO, Transport Workers Union
Local 100, the Civil Service Employees Association, the Public
Employee Federation and District Council 37 (DC37) of the American
Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. (NYCOSH Update on Safety and Health,
January 8, 2003)
Appeals Court Says OSHA Has Delayed Too Long on Chemical
Rule A federal appeals court ruled December 24
that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has
unreasonably delayed in creating a stricter rule limiting workers'
exposure to hexavalent chromium. (NEPA News, December 24)
GAO Recommends Ways for OSHA to Improve —
In a new report, the General Accounting Office, an investigative
arm of Congress, recommends that OSHA improve its worksite-targeting
efforts for inspections with better data, measurement and training
systems. "OSHA has taken important steps toward targeting
its enforcement resources on hazardous worksites, measure its
accomplishments, and enhance the professionalism of its staff.
However, these systems could be strengthened by better information
and mechanisms that would make targeting efforts more efficient,
measurement more precise, and training efforts more effective,"
the GAO report says. (Safety Next, November 26, 2002) To view
the text of the GAO report, click
here.
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