Workplace Safety and Health: Multiple Challenges Lengthen OSHA's Standard Setting

United States. Government Accountability Office.

United States. Government Accountability Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    employment;    health care;    workplace safety and health;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GAO-12-330
RP-ID  :  589819

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Between 1981 and 2010, the time it took the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop and issue safety and health standards ranged widely, from 15 months to 19 years, and averaged more than 7 years. Experts and agency officials cited increased procedural requirements, shifting priorities, and a rigorous standard of judicial review as contributing to lengthy time frames for developing and issuing standards. For example, they said that a shift in OSHA’s priorities toward one standard took attention away from several other standards that previously had been a priority."