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FRICTION MATERIALS STANDARDS INSTITUTE INC BERGEN MALL OFFICE CENTER ' ' E. 210 ROUTE 4 PARAMU-V. n j, 0755-. OCT 0 6 tbs ' .* j. . , * , i. ,*>/ ^. ,, **'' * ** Washington & BiisriiesS ; Health Hazards and the Workplace vy, * 5 *, ; :< - '4% ' .' i . By DAVID BUftNHAM A^ASHmomN--Seven ywrs after iA the .at have been argued and -- ' ---oved, th Occupational ,itb Act, the Federal cameundf?reu`la`t! " dual carcinogen : this week laid out `ait. en One issue the < atwsnt* to t that, If wferti by the decide aa a general 1 trnztm JyHCSKX of prodft ` ` The second issue-' cfluM ' action the f. i' f mfi ace 1* dBHpmi of only 17 of the more ctrcinogana that scientists ! 'Kceaent Ut 'the natioiFa hospitals, chemical plants, stops, .mines, cleaning stores hewn times buildings. report by the General Accounting bee iastspring said that at the exlst- pacelt Would taka OSSA mole fttnettito mulatB substances ........ '0, 'prodwtt Invfronmentaveiy ., ......al Accounting Of* jiuded, `theHeukhealth na which Congress sought to . fin the Health Act of 1970) -jeetxsisL...and many. may b. e getting lut' on Monday, Labor Secretary Marshall and Dr. Eula Bingham, :ad of the OSHA, mads a ` that would provide a drastic a the agency's approach to problems and a great increase urh on business to confront me shall and Dr. Bingham sd the Federal Govern* iff substances tiutt and the abandonment aubctance-by-dubstance thep[an,modelfUl-in- _eu,i..... ' osal provides that the pha-once-and- . _>labor dated -de* :v*l ipwSlL teats on mamalian aoli i coold be the basis, for dbi substance is a cai mc9I that a toxic .... ap determined, that the italt "will be sea etow aa* Assuming 7 Itev,eo cancer proposal survives; 1 iclmipiiiMyf ............ thepbteBtlairimi mous.:~ ` cceasii _..... 1,080 persona pSr, day in the Up . Stattaamt each year#9O,fl0O newt aredlsgttosad. . ' (* ' , * .V Somewhate between toi flO'^ot^:.-Qi.*afrt. . now believe, are triggered.' by. Sldt* stance* in the environment of America, many of which originally ale generated in the workplaces regulated by OSHA. While the human anguish behind . these statistics la impossible to qualify, the costs can be estimated. According to some studies, about S1.8 UUllon a year is spent In the United States solely for hospital ear* far cSiK*r" patients, S3 billion to S3 blllkm a year ft spent top all Undo of' treatment of cancer and perhaps 312.billion a year is lost in earning gdim; and pre*)otWty be* '^.MK^Srettrr^ to thew bfpfd*. er coats to sOCie9~dMe>-tif which* reflected to mns paid for twgeneral when asked whether he T` what the iuw-aoBteraheneite ment plan would cost , .. , , ....... Secretary said mat he believed the poll* cy, when Imp would But the proposal ceuidii tremendous increase In " pressure on Industry to,l sioiu of cadcer-eeii ' would capt ana money, thab thetf. ^ It buys what iadusuy 1 industty, representing S i dmHtf that would 1Ga.pi. fsctS, said that if 1 rheot> cbnoers in .wanting to occupstfendl mfiNisdire te-j But I^*4iou^Hb pMnt**_ more man am aftdffttiair a rUu tasvwsd task of redudog tbe riskd-of ' tlonal health hazards. NO > fonnola'WtU provide the rig The potential significance of OSHA proposal does not end la. workplace. Other Federal agei such as the Consumer Product Commisaion, end the Euvlt Protection Agency--regumte gene.on a sabifctnce-by-i basts. Should this Appro ` legal challenges-*which pa cases would suggest `Is they, too, could begin a broa&eiv j speedier, cleanup drive. '* W a meiporanduin *0 . . ,, OSHA said that it wag .jfiSfinsrr" noMT83a%tedB^ifDd of Uhor, Third Btrstt and Cofi. Avenge N.W., WeeMngtonf D%. FMSI-0272 FMSI 03375