Occupational safety and health in the USA: now and the future

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• Personal Author:
  Hearl, Frank J. ; Howard J
• Description:
  In the USA, national worker protection legislation was enacted in 1970. The legislation required that research, recommendations and guidance be developed to aid employers and workers, that workplace health and safety standards be adopted, that employer comply with those rules and that the government police employer compliance, and that assistance be offered to employers and workers to help them maintain a safe and healthful workplace. In the 40 years since passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, worker injury, illness and fatalities have declined but not been eliminated. Efforts to accelerate the standards adoption process are much discussed in the USA along with how to protect workers from emerging hazards like nanotechnology. New strategies which seek to eliminate not only the causes of work-related injury and illness, but also more broadly, worker injury and illness, that are on the horizon. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Worker Safety And Health Consultation Disease-prevention Employee-health Enforcement Guidance Health-hazards Injury-prevention NIOSH Occupational-health OSHA Prevention Through Design Regulations Standards Surveillance-programs Work-environment Worker-health Workplace-monitoring

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• ISSN:
  0019-8366
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• 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:
  80-83
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040716
• Citation:
  Ind Health 2012 Apr; 50(2):80-83
• Contact Point Address:
  John Howard, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 395 E Street, SW, Suite 9200, Washington, DC, USA
• Email:
  zkz1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4fbb2a25c32627ecdb0c76cebc3a203f81507f9d654668e6839b366e9c047c48b7ef85af8d19fdcf21a0a4d5969411ccc201c945934547289d26500fae1ee8fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193484/cdc_193484_DS1.pdf
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