Notifying workers at risk: The politics of the right-to-know

R. Bayer

American Journal of Public Health, 1986, vol. 76, issue 11, 1352-1356

Abstract: Holding that workers exposed to toxic substances in the workplace have a right to know about the extent to which they may have been put at risk, Bayer describes the history of the political controversy over whether the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ought to provide individual notification to workers found through its retrospective cohort mortality studies to be at increased risk for disease. He comments that both advocates and opponents of notification have focused their arguments on the potential clinical consequences, even though the issue actually entails questions about the distribution of the burdens of uncertainty among powerful interests.

Date: 1986
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