USA : occupational health under the first Bush Administration, 2000-2004
2005
27
28-29
environmental management ; labour law ; occupational safety and health ; safety and health institutions ; trade union document
Occupational safety and health
English
Bibliogr.
"OSHA, the US federal agency for occupational health, was set up in 1971 with two core tasks. One was to be the federal occupational health and safety inspectorate; the other was as a regulatory agency, drawing up rules to improve prevention.OSHA's track record under President Bush's first term is particularly dismal. Both core tasks were systematically sidelined as it fell in with employers' demands. This situation is not limited to health at work, but extends across most other spheres where public regulation is required to limit unbridled profit-chasing by business, like environmental protection, food health, medicines control, etc. A group of former federal agency heads led by Carol Brower, former director of the EPA (federal Environmental Protection Agency), has produced a damning report on it . ..."
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