President's report on occupational safety and health.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hodgson JD
• Description:
  A description is provided of the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 during its first year of operation. The report examines the responsibilities of the Department of Labor for setting safety and health standards and explores the activities of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in research and training. Implementation of the act included cooperative programs with state governments. Among the data in the report are work-injury rates by industry for the period 1958 - 1970, occupational safety and health grants and contracts, and hazard surveys.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Hazardous Substances Laboratories Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Industrial-hygiene Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupational-hazards Occupational-health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-216
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000612
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1972 May; :1-216
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9aa88c6786c8e5025ea90641eb5f3cf0c8eb87b25fa917c9b2556ac06ba3ec27b67972caf790b78b3ffa5b9b23995f3b78b82c93afddc572c7b854885b6e3503
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181018/cdc_181018_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.27 MB ]