. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CHANGES IN OSHA The National Institute for Occu- pational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a research agency within the Department of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare, lists between 1,600 and 2,000 substances as sus- pected carcinogens. But the Oc- cupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the responsible regulatory agency, has set health standards for only six- teen of these substances. This dis- crepancy has prompted a move to reorient OSHA from pre- occupation with safety standards toward a stronger emphasis on health standar
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CHANGES IN OSHA The National Institute for Occu- pational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a research agency within the Department of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare, lists between 1,600 and 2,000 substances as sus- pected carcinogens. But the Oc- cupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the responsible regulatory agency, has set health standards for only six- teen of these substances. This dis- crepancy has prompted a move to reorient OSHA from pre- occupation with safety standards toward a stronger emphasis on health standards. The new OSHA policies, re- ported in "Environmental Science and Technology," include more frequent inspections of high risk industries (, construction, manu- facturing, petrochemicals), develop- ment of generic health standards to cover broad categories of poten- tially dangerous substances, expan- sion of state consultative services, and development of worker education programs. The plan also provides for the hiring and training of more health-compUance officers, as well as increased cooperation with NIOSH, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the De- partment of Agriculture. Occupational exposure to dan- gerous substances is widespread. Some 880,000 workers, about one percent of the work force, may be exposed to an OSHA-regulated car- cinogen; twenty-two milHon (25 percent of the work force of 93 milUon) may come into contact with an OSHA-regulated substance that can cause disease or death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) together with NIOSH and the National Research Council for Prevention of Occupational Cancer (NRC) all affirm the right of workers to know the extent and nature of their exposure to toxic substances. However, NIOSH claims it does not have the authority to alert some 74,000 workers which its studies indicate have a better than average chance of developing cancers due to on-the-job exposure to harmful
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