Bio-Technology Awareness

As OSHA's director of health standards, Finkel was in charge of establishing 
permissible exposure limits for toxics in the workplace.
Note the word "permissible" -- not to be confused with "safe." Ever since a 
landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1980, OSHA has 
set exposure limits that are calculated to kill at least one of every 1,000
people exposed for a working lifetime.


OSHA, inspect thyself.
In 2002, Finkel was a high-ranking official at the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, the federal agency charged with protecting
Americans from hazards on the job. Finkel was worried about hazards to some of 
OSHA's own inspectors, who faced the possibility of serious
lung disease from exposure to the toxic metal beryllium.