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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
Service, Inc.
99 CIS H 34181
TITLE: Oversight of
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
CIS-NO: 99-H341-81
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 23, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+158 p. il.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-13
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-13. Hearing before the Subcom on Workforce
Protections to examine OSHA occupational health and safety programs. Reviews
OSHA proposals to promulgate a national ergonomics standard regarding the
relationship between repetitive workplace tasks and musculoskeletal disorders,
and to revise employer record-keeping requirements for workplace injuries.
Supplementary material (p. 31-158) includes submitted statements
and witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Occupational health and safety regulations review and revision
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
WORKFORCE PROTECTIONS. HOUSE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL
DISEASES; GOVERNMENT FORMS AND PAPERWORK
99-H341-81 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Mar. 23, 1999 p. 5-30, 37-142
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
JEFFRESS, CHARLES N. (Assistant
Secretary, OSHA)
MCMICHAEL, C. STUART (President, Custom
Print, Inc.; representing Printing Industries of America, National Federation of
Independent Business, and Alliance for Workplace Safety)
SARVADI, DAVID G. (attorney, representing National
Coalition on Ergonomics)
ELMER, JAMES W. (President and
Owner, James W. Elmer Construction Co)
BORWEGEN, WILLIAM
K. (Director, Occupational Health and Safety, Service Employees International
Union)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview
of OSHA workplace safety priorities and initiatives; criticism of OSHA proposed
ergonomics standard and employer record-keeping requirements, citing undue
burden on small businesses; need to ensure that OSHA workplace ergonomics
regulatory requirements are based on medical research, with recommendations.
Description of workplace injury hazards facing health care
service providers; issues involved in OSHA promulgation of a national ergonomics
standard.
INSERTION:
-- "SEIU's Guide to
Preventing Needlestick Injuries" 1998, with charts and survey
instrument (p. 103-142).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Occupational health and safety regulations review and
revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PRINTING
INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND
EQUIPMENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; BLOOD DISEASES; SMALL BUSINESS