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Ideas galore on ways to speed process for new worker safety protections. Where is the leadership to implement them?
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on May 1, 2012
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report on the snail’s pace of the OSHA process of issuing new rules to protect workers from health and safety hazards on-the-job. One telling table in the document showed the agency issued about 20 new major regulations in each of the previous two decades (i.e.,…