Whistle-Blower: Agency Tasked with Protecting American Workers Fails to Protect its Own
By Carole Bass, AlterNet. Posted July 27, 2008.
OSHA, inspect thyself.
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.
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