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Basic Health and Safety Rights (NYCOSH)
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Derechos del Empleado en el Lugar de Trabajo (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 1988)
Employment Law: Health and Safety (Nolo.com)
Environmental Law Implications of the World Trade Center Disaster (Environmental Law in New York, January 2002)
Federal Asbestos Worker Protection Regulations (Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations)
Government Accountability Project
Health and Safety and the National Labor Relations Act (Wisconsin Committee on Occupational Safety and Health)
BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">International Labour Organization Database of International Labour Standards
Laws Governing the Employment of Minors in New York State (New York State Labor Department)
Links to State Laws Dealing with Labor and Industrial Safety (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
National Employment Law Project
National Employment Lawyers Association
National Whistleblower Center
New York State Consolidated Labor Laws (New York State Assembly)
New York State Industrial Code Rules A miscellany of safety and health regulations that provide public-sector workers in New York State with protections not included in OSHA regulations, including low-pressure and high-pressure boilers, elevator construction, air contaminants, window cleaning ionizing radiation, explosives, lasers, asbestos and working around high-voltage equipment (New York State Department of Labor)
New York State Industrial Code Rule 56 - Asbestos Detailed regulations for any handling of asbestos that may result in the release of asbestos fiber (New York State Department of Labor)
New York State Labor Law, Article 2: Health and Safety for Employees of State and Local Government
New York State Labor Law, Article 28: Toxic Substances (Right-to-Know law)
New York State Labor Law Article 29: Training and Education Program on Occupational Safety and Health
New York State Labor Law, Article 30: Asbestos or Products Containing Asbestos
BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3">New York State policy on Union Requests to Conduct Working Condition Evaluations/Inspections of New York State Facilities (Governor's Office of Employee Relations, 2003)
New York State Regulations Concerning School Environmental Safety and Construction Safety (8 New York Code of Rules and Regulations, Part 155)
Occupational Disease Compensation (New York State Office of the Attorney General)
Official OSHA Complaint Form
OSHA: Employee Workplace Rights Informat.  For information about using files in PDF format, click here (An up-to-date 28-page booklet by OSHA.)
OSHA Law Library (Findlaw)
Protecting Whistleblowers with Job Safety and Health Complaints Informat.  For information about using files in PDF format, click here.  (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2000)
Rezime Dwa Ou Genyen Dapre Lwa OSHA Haitian Creole translation of Summary of Rights Under the OSHA Law (Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health)
Right to Refuse Unsafe Work (Communications Workers of America)
Union Rights to Health and Safety Information and to Access to Employer’s Premises under Federal Labor Law
U.S. Labor Department, Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 rules (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, 29 CFR 825)
Whistleblower Collection (U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administative Law Judges)
"Willful Violation" as Defined by OSHA
(OSHA Field Inspection Reference Manual)

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