Senate hearing. Is OSHA working for the people?

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Subj: [occ-env-med-l] Two OSHA Hearings and a New Weekly Toll

Date: 4/23/2007 4:42:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time From: _jbarab@..._

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There is a new Weekly Toll here:

_http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2007/04/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace_\

22.html_

(http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2007/04/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace_\

22.html)

And the House Education and Labor Committee, Subcommittee on Workplace

Protections will hold a hearing on " " Have OSHA Standards Kept up with Workplace

Hazards? " scheduled at 1:30 p.m. in room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building.

There will be a live feed here ( _http://edworkforce.house.gov/_

(http://edworkforce.house.gov/) ) or you can watch the archives later here:

_http://edworkforce.house.gov/committee/hearings.shtml _

(http://edworkforce.house.gov/committee/hearings.shtml)

Witnesses:

Edwin Foulke

Assistant Secretary

Department of Labor

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Washington D.C.

Peoples

Former Employee

Victim of Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Popcorn Lung)

Glister- Lee Popcorn Factory

Carthage, Missouri

Schneider

Director of Occupational Safety and Health

Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America

Washington D.C.

Baruch Fellner

Attorney

Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher

Washington D.C.

Mirer

Professor of Environmental and

Occupational Health Sciences

Hunter School of Urban Public Health

New York, New York

The Senate Committe on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, subcommittee

on Employment and Workplace Safety will hold a hearing Thursday, April 26 at

10:00 am on " Is OSHA Working for Working People? " You can watch it here:

_http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2007_04_26/2007_04_26.html _

(http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2007_04_26/2007_04_26.html)

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