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JUN 2 9 B82 Al OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH REPORTER m A weekly renew of occupational safety and health developments 'fl Velum* 13, Htimbtr 4 THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, INC. June 24, 1962 HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT REPORT LEAD STANDARD REQUIREMENTS for de tailed employer compliance plans on engineering control and work practice provisions are pro posed to be stayed by th Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which defers their effective date two months to allow for notice and comment, OSHA says it will still require general plans but maintains that detailed plans may be rendered unnecessary by the outcome of the agency's current reconsideration of the rale (p. 83)... Text at OSHA notice (p. 102). A FIELD SANITATION RULE must be devel oped by OSHA. with work beginning immediate ly, according to the terms of a settlement ap proved by a federal district court. Judge June Green accepts the agreement between the agency and lawyers for migrant workers after rejecting it five days earlier (p. S3). ASBESTOS-RELATED CANCER will account for some 200.000 deaths by the end of the cen tury, according to a Mount Sinai School of Medi cine study performed for the Labor Department. The study also finds that public and private bene fit payments have replaced only 20 percent of the income lost by a group of asbestos insulation workers who died between 1967 and 1975 (p. 84). THE SUPREME COURT denies an employer's petition for review of an appeals court decision that the secretary of labor does not have to demonstrate a "sigidficant risk of harm" to em ployees in order to establish a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (p. 84). A NATIONAL COMPENSATION SYSTEM for victims of occupational disease is endorsed by the executive council of the aFL-CIO Industrial Union Departmoit in a resolution approved in Atlanta (p. 85). OSHA TRAINING OFFICE EMPLOYEES file suit in a federal district court, challenging their transfer from the agency's national office to its training institute near Chicago. Fair labor prac tices were not observed in the move, which im posed "severe" hardships. 19 employees and a onion local charge <p. 85). USE OF VIDEO DISPLAY TERMINALS is associated with headaches and blurring of vision experienced by some writers in a Baltimore newspaper office, according to a preliminary report by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. NIG6H finds "no significant assodaCori* between VDT use and incidence of cataracts In some of the employees, however (p. fil- CHEMICAL LABELING LAWS in states and localities will be sought by labor unions "as long as we can and until such time as we see a strong federal standard," AFL-CIO Safety and Health Director George HU. Taylor states in OSHA rulemaking hearings, predicting continued activity throughout OSHA rulemaking and subsequent court challenges, (p. 87). I I I I AN OIL RIG SAFETY STANDARD is under development at OSHA, which plans to publish it for comment early in 1983. Safety Standards Director Barry J. White tells a House subcommittee bearing (p. 89)... The same Government Operations panel bean a safety and health coalitkm testify in Chicago that OSHA enforcement patterns threaten Uves and harmonious labor relatinos (p. 87). I I I I I I I I I 18 STATE PLANS are granted approval by OSHA to enforce their own safety and health standards without concurrent federal enforce ment (p. 93). I I CANCER DEATHS due to disease types linked to workplace exposure and cigarette smoking rose among older men from 1968 to 1978. a mortality trend analysis concludes. Rates de clined among men under 45, however, the study finds (p. 91). I THE REFERENCE FILE SUPPLEMENT with this issue of Occupational Safety & Health Reporter includes a correction to a table in the OSHA noise standard under Sobpart G, an apdated Occupational Safety and Health Review CommksioB directory, and amendments to several______ state plans. *,, >? jy >.'<* 2ltbJu 01 CCS5-1/37. r? ^03 zQ AfffcfS. PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT LLA 001597