The term “risk communication is commonly used to describe procedures by which a public agency or other party possessing information about the hazardous attributes of an activity or product transfers this information to others. For several decades, the Freedom of Information and National Environmental Policy Acts have, in effect, provided for...
Worker Health and Safety (Recommendations)
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- Recommendation number: 90-3
- Adopted on: June 7, 1990
- Tags: Environment, Environmental Law, Material Safety Data Sheets, Right to Know Act, Risk Communication, Science, Worker Health and Safety
- Recommendation number: 87-10
- Adopted on: December 18, 1987
- Tags: Congress, Rulemaking, Worker Health and Safety
This is the second of two recommendations adopted by the Administrative Conference this year on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation. In its first recommendation,1 the Conference recommended that OSHA make specific changes in its management of...
- Recommendation number: 87-1
- Adopted on: June 11, 1987
- Tags: Rulemaking, Worker Health and Safety
The Administrative Conference has undertaken a study of the rulemaking process at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It is recognized that OSHA’s mandate to regulate any substance or hazard that poses a significant risk to workers and, to the extent feasible, make every workplace safe is daunting, and that alternative approaches to...
- Recommendation number: 87-2
- Adopted on: June 11, 1987
- Tags: Congress, Whistleblowers, Worker Health and Safety
Private sector employees who make disclosures concerning health and safety matters pertaining to the workplace are protected against retaliatory actions by over a dozen Federal laws. By common usage these employees, as well as others who make similar disclosures concerning fraud or other misconduct (but who are beyond the Conference’s current study...