Chapter 4: OSHA Special Problems I

We now start to drill down into issues that illustrate some of the challenges in regulating known risks: ergonomic risks; the problem of the persistence of the original interim standards (the “PELs”); the history of regulation of Hexavalent Chloride; and the current status of regulation of silica and benzene.

Note that in Chapter 6, we address constitutional challenges being mounted to OSHA's regulatory authority.

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