OSHA
Commentary
"What did we set up the government for?"
May 31, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
On Friday, June 23, the world ended for some U.S. textile firms.
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Textile World, July, 1978.
[The ergonomics standard is a] overbroad, overdrawn, bureaucratic mess.
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Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.), From Wall St. Journal.
[Only one percent of cotton workers] have a reaction to cotton dust. The problem is grossly exaggerated. There has not been a known death from byssinosis. There are no autopsy findings that prove the existence of byssinosis in an individual. There are subjective symptoms which the patients express that sometimes result from bronchitis, emphysema or excessive smoking.
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F. Sadler Love, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, The Washington Post.
Our concern is that too many regulatory bodies are reacting to this need and that divergent or contradictory rules would be established which would in effect create chaos for the designers, builders and operators.
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Max Spencer, of the Continental Grain Company. Testimony. OSHA hearings.
Related Laws and Rules
- Ergonomics Standard (2000)
- OSHA Formaldehyde Standard
- OSHA Grainhandling Standard
- OSHA Vinyl Chloride Standard
- OSHA's Asbestos Standard
- OSHA's Cotton Dust Standard
- OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
- OSHA’s Ethylene Oxide Standard
- OSHA’s Excavation Standard
- OSHA’s Lead in Construction Standard
- OSHA’s Lockout/Tagout Standard
- OSHA’s Methylene Chloride Standard
