What is necessary for effective occupational safety and health regulation?

The following excerpt is a summary of issues that are broadly relevant to how we might think about health and safety regulation. It provides an overview and context for the various legal approaches and some summary of current law. Although written more than twenty years ago, the description and analysis remain valid today. These materials return to these issues in greater depth later. You will also see many of the cases referenced here later in these materials.

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