OSHA Hazard Communication Standard Quotes

We’ll do everything in our power to have it defeated. All these attorneys have to do is grab these records, and they can play all kinds of games with them. Just about anything that happens to a person can be connected to his work.

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William R. Willberg, vice-president of operations for the Wisconsin Association of Manufacturers & Association.

[The proposed OSHA right-to-know regulation will be] an enormously expensive and unnecessarily burdensome regulation.

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From a letter to the Reagan Administration from Robert A. Roland, president of the Chemical Manufacturers Association.

[The proposed OSHA standard would force employers to follow] overly simplistic procedures...which differ markedly from well-established hazard warning practices….[creating] in favor of potentially confusing over-labeling [and] “excessively detailed hazard evaluation procedures.

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Robert A. Roland, president of the Chemical Manufacturers Association.

[The OSHA right-to-know regulation would create] virtually unmanageable burdens on small manufacturers….workers would be just as safe without this regulation.

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Ralph Engel, Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association official.