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"Educate the Individual ... to a Sane Appreciation of the Risk".
- Source :
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American Journal of Public Health . Jan2016, Vol. 106 Issue 1, p28-35. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and the Workers Right to Know laws later in that decade were signature moments in the history of occupational safety and health. We have examined how and why industry leaders came to accept that it was the obligation of business to provide information about the dangers to health of the materials that workers encountered. Informing workers about the hazards of the job had plagued labor-management relations and fed labor disputes, strikes, and even pitched battles during the turn of the century decades. Industry's rhetorical embrace of the responsibility to inform was part of its argument that government regulation of the workplace was not necessary because private corporations were doing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *OCCUPATIONAL hazards
*SOCIAL responsibility of business
*RISK perception
*ETHICS
*HISTORY
*INDUSTRIAL safety laws
*WORK environment & psychology
*ENVIRONMENTAL exposure prevention
*OCCUPATIONAL medicine
*MEDICAL ethics
*INDUSTRIAL hygiene
*RISK assessment
*INDUSTRIAL safety
UNITED States. Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00900036
- Volume :
- 106
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111940521
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302912