RT Book, Section
A1 Bingham, Eula
A1 Monforton, Celeste
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141971643
T1 Occupational Safety and Health Standards
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141971643
RD 2024/04/20
AB Until  1970,  there  was  almost  total  reliance  on  state  and  local  governments  and  the  forces  of  the  market  to  improve  working  conditions  related  to  occupational  injuries,  death,  and  disease.  For  more  than  50  years,  state  governments  had  attempted  to  inspect  workplaces  and  to  advise  employers  about  hazards.  Few  of  these  programs,  however,  had  adequate  enforcement  authority  to  compel  abatement  of  dangerous  conditions.  In  some  states,  no  attempt  was  made  by  government  to  change  workplace  conditions,  either  by  enforcement  or  by  persuasion.  Variations  in  state  legislation  resulted  in  comprehensive,  strong  regulation  in  some  states  (e.g.,  New  York  and  Illinois)  and  nonexistent  regulation  in  others  (e.g.,  Mississippi).  The  doctrine  of  states’  rights  and  a  tradition  of  state  regulatory  activity  in  the  area  of  labor  standards  protected  this  status  quo.