Workers at Risk
The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Published on 28. February 1993
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-275-94281-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is not close to meeting its mandate to protect American workers, according to administrative law specialists McGarity and Shapiro. Thousands of men and women are still victims of workplace accidents and occupational disease. The goal of this book is to analyze why OSHA has failed and to suggest what can be done to set it back on track. The book, divided into six parts, evaluates the current status of the protection of workers and provides a history of OSHA regulation. The authors suggest four methods to reduce workplace health and safety risks: (1) better management of OSHA; (2) reduced oversight by the courts and the executive branch; (3) a change in OSHA's legislative mandate; and (4) empowering workers to protect themselves.
This important work will be of interest to scholars and professionals in occupational health, labor economics, labor law, and human resource management.
This important work will be of interest to scholars and professionals in occupational health, labor economics, labor law, and human resource management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94281-6 (9780275942816)
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Persons
THOMAS O. McGARITY is Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of Reinventing Rationality (1991).
SIDNEY A. SHAPIRO is Rounds Professor of Law at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author (with Joseph Tomain) of Regulatory Law and Policy (1992).
SIDNEY A. SHAPIRO is Rounds Professor of Law at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author (with Joseph Tomain) of Regulatory Law and Policy (1992).
Content
OSHA's Failed Promise The Plight of America's Workers Regulatory Failure and Reform OSHA's History The Nixon/Ford Years: Inauspicious Beginnings The Carter Years: OSHA on the Move The Reagan Years: Going Backward The Reagan Years: Inching Forward The Reagan Years: Killing Time The Reagan Years: Tying Up Loose Ends The Reagan Years: New Initiatives The Reagan Years: Weakening Enforcement The Bush Years: An Identity Crisis Internal Reforms: Better Management for OSHA Making OSHA More Efficient: Setting Priorities and Eliminating Bottlenecks More Bang for the Buck: Alternative Methods of Regulation and Implementation Ensuring Compliance: The Puzzle of Enforcement External Reforms: Who Is in Charge? The President's Role: OSHA OSHRC's Role: The Failure of the Split-Enforcement Arrangement The Court's Role: Judicial Review and OSHA External Reforms: Changing OSHA's Mandate OSHA and Overregulation: Should Cost-Benefit Analysis Apply? Economics and OSHA: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Underregulation Modeling EPA: A New Mandate for OSHA External Reforms: Empowering Workers Lighting a Fire: When OSHA Is a Reluctant Regulator Empowering Workers: Enforcing the OSH Act Empowering Workers: Rethinking Employment Relationships Selected Bibliography Index