OSHA
Commentary
"What did we set up the government for?"
May 31, 2011
Cry Wolf Quotes
This regulation, whenever it is issued and takes effect, will be one of the most far-reaching workplace rules ever issued by any federal agency. Ultimately it will affect every business in the country.
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Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate's Small Business Committee. The Los Angeles Times.
It is sickening to see the gutless minions of the news media siding with those few crybaby Americans who obviously are looking for a handout from the very hand that fed and clothed their families.
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William Pitts owner of the 80 year old Hermitage Mills, located in Camden South Carolina.
You're creating an enormously expensive regulation without true evidence of what we will get out of it. You're creating an enormous cost that will only have the effect of pushing jobs offshore.
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Rep. Anne M. Northup (KY-R), The New York Times.
[N]one [of our members] could operate if the NIOSH [vinyl chloride] Work Standard were imposed upon the industry.
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The Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI).
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
