Is OSHA Missing the Boat by Ignoring Long-Term Health Threats to Workers?

[The Straight Story]

Is OSHA Missing the Boat by Ignoring Long-Term Health Threats to Workers?
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It is noted that the watchdog agency devotes most of its budget and efforts to addressing more imminent dangers rather than preventing “the silent, slow killers that, in the end, take far more lives.”

For instance, OSHA spent about 40 years writing new standards to limit exposure to 16 deadly workplace hazards, including lead, asbestos and arsenic.

Meanwhile, it largely ignored thousands of other dangerous substances handled by American workers on a daily basis.

David Michaels, OSHA’s director, admitted that the system is “broken” when it comes to the agency dealing with workplace health threats, allowing “tens of thousands of people” to “end up on the gurney,” he told The New York Times.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/is-osha-missing-the-boat-by-ignoring-long-term-health-threats-to-workers-130402?news=849616

[RedstDem]

1. osha still exist's?

they went bye bye long ago.
I think ray gun cut their funding first, then every admin since.

i think they're down to one office manager and an admin assistant, one coffee maker, and they have to bring their own cups bring in their own bottled water...

sry for all the snark, but I've worked construction for 30 years, and watched it get gutted.
all part of the war against workers and unions