RE: Compensation of survivors

["Stokes, James" <StokesJ@TTNUS.COM>]

 Another interesting note to add to that:

Workers performing activities pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act, were exempt

from the OSHA regulations.

Jim Stokes



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From: RuthWeiner@aol.com

To: blc+@pitt.edu; StokesJ@ttnus.com

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Sent: 8/16/01 3:02 PM

Subject: Re: Compensation of survivors



Just to avoid confusion, this post is in response to what workers needed

to 

be informed of and when.  It is not meant to imply that anybody should

or 

shouldn't be or have been informed, that any industrial practice was

great or 

awful, that any industry's ethics were pure or impure. 



Worker "right to know" legislation (as well as community "right to

know") was 

enacted, by my recollection, in the late 1970s (OSHA was 1970) and

resulted 

in the use of MSDS sheets.  Before that time, informing the workers of 

hazards was more or less up to the employer, but the employer did incur

a 

risk if precautions were inadequate.  Workmen's Compensation is funded

by 

taxes on the employer somewhat proportional to the size of Workmen's

Comp 

claims.  Workmen's Comp, incidentally, is a really sneaky way for

employers 

to avoid being sued -- you forfeit the right to sue if you claim

Workmen's 

Comp. 





Ruth Weiner, Ph. D. 

ruthweiner@aol.com

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