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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:17:00 -0400
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Subject: 3 RE: [DCHAS-L] U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
From: "Hopper, Charles R."
Date: July 25, 2008 9:30:29 AM EDT (CA)
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
It's too bad that this has become a political forum. The underlying
assumption is that the "chemical industry's management" is out to
reduce worker safety. This is far from the truth. Many times
government rules and regulations are not based on science or "real
life" situations but on the worst possible scenario which never
happens. Let's keep this a non-political exchange of ideas and
information of safety in the handling of chemicals.
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From: Alan Hall
Date: July 25, 2008 9:35:45 AM EDT (CA)
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
All,
I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile, but I am deeply
disturbed if this proves to be true and I don't necessarily know what
a Board Certified Medical Toxicologist, former Occupational/
Environmental Medicine Physician who occasionally does some consulting
with DOL and politically doesn't particularly like the current
administration and is not pleased with the possible next choices could
do. Sometimes in your nightmares or dreams, you begin to like the
times you spent in Canada and Australia just a little bit better.
And yet, I've served my country in any way I could. What are the next
steps? I've annoyed congresspersons and even Senators to try and get
a point across when I believed in it. I try not to do it these days,
but there's some times when you have to stand up on your hind legs and
howl at the moon like any well-blooded coyote, and worker health in
safety is one of those times. I've got scars still on my arms for a
poorly-controlled aluminum facility, and I know other things too
numerous to mention. I wasn't always an MD. We all started somewhere
and I had my first full-time job at the age of 13 years.
Let me know how we can approach this issue as we should as responsible
EHS professionals.
But somehow, perhaps this is a "coyote" issue where we have to howl at
the moon as responsible professionals.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
President and Chief Medical Toxicologist
Toxicology Consulting and Medical Translating Services, Inc. (TCMTS,
Inc.)
Laramie, WY
Clinical Assictant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver/Aurora, Colorado
Senior Advisor
Forensic Science
Weatherford College
eatherford, Texas
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From: Paul Sonnenfeld
Date: July 25, 2008 11:59:15 AM EDT (CA)
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
Okay, so the Bush Adminstration is playing fast and loose with federal
rulemaking procedures. Please remember that federal courts have been
taking a dim view of this practice as evidenced by the number of cases
the US EPA has lost. Perhaps the folks at DOL, in their haste to
craft these new rules are forgetting about the statute. You know,
that general duty clause. My recollection is that that statute trumps
any rule or regulation promulgated by DOL.
This is not to say that we don't have to diligently review the
proposed rule when it is finally published in the Federal Register.
Paul Sonnenfeld, CPEA
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