Educate the individual.. to a sane appreciation of the risk a history of industry's responsibility to warn of job dangers before the occupational safety and health administration

D. Rosner and G. Markowitz

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 1, 28-35

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.

Keywords: government regulation; health care management; human; human experiment; labor management; leadership; occupational safety; responsibility; worker; workplace; access to information; adverse effects; dangerous goods; government; history; legislation and jurisprudence; occupational exposure; occupational health; trade union; United States, dangerous goods, Access to Information; Collective Bargaining; Hazardous Substances; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Labor Unions; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; United States; United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302912

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