1. There were few laws or regulations to ensure worker safety. 2. Among them will be hands-on bureaucrats who decide how to implement regulations affecting everything from worker safety and environmental practices to tax codes and export licenses. 3. Both also agreed that problems with worker safety and explosions will not make either TRW factory in Mesa more of a target than other facilities. 4. A bill that would eliminate scores of job-training and education programs while cutting funding for worker safety was approved by the House Appropriations Committee. 5. But Young complained, and city officials agreed, that the OSHA guidelines, which are meant for factories, are too lenient to guarantee worker safety. 6. Caterpillar says that worker health safety is a top company priority. 7. Deaths attributable to radiation exposure occurred at doses substantially below U.S. worker safety limits, the study found. 8. Ergonomics is the science of adapting workplaces to ensure worker safety. 9. For example, tomorrow, hundreds of people will gather in Washington for a conference on health care worker safety and blood borne diseases in the workplace. 10. For instance, argues Dionne, repealing worker safety rules will create enormous pressures for employers to cut corners, even those who prefer not to. |