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Indecision and delay characterized Bush’s OSHA

Indecision and delay characterized Bush’s OSHA chron.com By R. JEFFREY SMITH Associated Press

Dec. 29, 2008 – “……………..during the Bush administration, as political appointees ordered the withdrawal of dozens of workplace health regulations, slow-rolled others, and altered the reach of its warnings and rules in response to industry pressure. The result is a legacy of unregulation common to several health-protection agencies under Bush………………………In the spring, political appointees quietly scrapped work on another long-pending regulation of hazardous exposure to ionizing radiation in mailrooms, food warehouses, and hospitals and airports. It cited “resource constraints and other priorities” — the same reason officials gave for withdrawing more than a dozen regulatory proposals in 2001………………….Under Bush, the agency was reluctant even to issue health warnings that fall short of regulations, if doing so might make it easier for workers to collect damages for diseases.

Indecision and delay characterized Bush’s OSHA | Business | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

December 30, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized