Quote – Richard B. Berman, Chamber of Commerce, Testimony, the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the House Committee on Education and Labor.

One month [after the law took effect] a special edition of the Federal Register was published containing close to 250 pages of safety and health standards. Businessmen were given three months to familiarize themselves with these standards before the majority of them were to be effective.

“Statement on Business and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the House Committee on Education and Labor by Richard B. Berman for Chamber of Commerce,” Chamber of Commerce Presentations to Congress, Papers of Chamber of Commerce, Series II, Box 11, Hagley Museum.

Thursday, September 14, 1972