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FILE NAME: Georgia Pacific (GP) DATE: 1974 May DOC#: GP028 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article from Trade Publication
A Sleeper?
The construction industry had Ut tie idea what was over the honzon when the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed by com
In due course. OSHA develop
Into a major source of concern for
a ll co n tra cto rs. Everybody's /fo r safety, of course, and few thqbght passage of the federal law would make very much difference in con ducting a business. It's made a i 'hale nf a big difference.
Congress has created anothe 1 bu reau which hasn't received a treat deal of attention. Maybe it root have too much impact on eons lion. On the other hand, it eouli come a bureaucratic giant affec almost every business.
It's the Consumer Product Safet; Commission, which b e l i e v e s the home is second only to the automo bile as the most dangerous "product" on the market today. If CPSC is all that worried about homes, why not offices, warehouses, and all build ings?
The Commission reasons that since it has jurisdiction over appliances, it follows that it has authority over wiring. The wiring's attached to structural framing, so that too must come within their jurisdiction. By
Struct!!. Perhaps it won't happen. But then,
whoever thought OSHA would be come ao important?
Asbestos Danger Cited
Taping and spackling compounds used in drywaU finishing may ex pose workers to danferous levels of asbestos fibers, according to OSHA officiala.
The warning followed an exami nation of 17 members of a New York City painters' locai. Tests showed the lungs of nine painters had X-ray evidence of fibresis. or excessive se cretion build-up in the lungs.
Employer groups and unions are being asked to alert workers to the potential hazard, said federal safety authorities.
Moosbruggor Passas `
Longtime iaWCC member Louis J. Moosbrugger died in Lake Worth, florida, in February. He founded Northwestern Plastic Art. Milwau kee. in 1933, and developed the NuStone system of simulated stone masonry executed In plaster. North western Plastic Art It Nu-Stone Co lne., is now h e a d e d by his son, Robert
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