11.   Government has taken over responsibility for protecting workplace safety and pensions.

12.   He focused on issues, like workplace safety within the Treasury Department, that seemed far removed from the pressing matters of the day.

13.   If that idea were pushed to its extreme, there would be no minimum wage, no workplace safety or environmental protection regulations, no prohibitions against child labor.

14.   In fact, Congress has partly or completely exempted itself from many laws governing workplace safety, employment and civil rights.

15.   In large part, businesses are concerned about workplace safety because of money.

16.   In the Senate, legislation on workplace safety is just being considered, so the outlook is not clear.

17.   Industry spokesmen also say that government statistics on workplace safety show that, aside from the miscarriages, their plants are safer than most manufacturing sites.

18.   It has stressed a commitment to workplace safety and said Milham failed to prove his study was needed.

19.   It would affect rules governing air quality, toxic wastes, food additives, workplace safety, automobile standards and more.

20.   Its lawyer, Nicholas Subashi, said Tube Products was responsible for workplace safety at the plant, and Extra Help was not responsible for the accidents.