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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
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND:
1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
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
