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a Exposure Rules WALL STREET JOURNAL agency plans merely to insert the names of Tuesday May 31 -1977 Individual chemicals that it determines may | \ | On5 Major Hazards high cause cancer : ~" place noise is too The noise standard under development for several years is being held up because soon The safety chief said her agency a Z considering on nickel 4 chro- | Expected by Year portions of the official transcript of a hearing on the issue are unintelligible according to Labor Department officials The tran- mates beryllium sulphur sulphur dioxide and acry textile lonitrile a synthetic substance re- cently identified as a possible cause of can ; 4 Byta WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter ti: WASHINGTON Labor Department expects to adopt limits on worker exposure five major health hazards by year | but awaited standard on noise i) levels probably won't be among them Eula At Bingham Assistant Secretary of | Labor for Occupational Safety and Health final said rules controlling workers expo- ) sure to arsenic benzene cotton dust and scribing company that made the texts has gone out of business complicating the effort to unscramble them Bingham begun on others chemicals . has just In addition Miss Bingham said she is On another matter the Supreme assistant secre bringing in an outside expert to help the agency decide on the design of the noise| Supreme a lower federal court's rurluilnigng safety requiring job rule which would affect more workers and/} safety inspectors to obtain warrants before - employers than any other occupational | health regulation Business already claimed that has the cost of clamping down on entering work places the agency agency hurt but could adjust If we she warrant that's what we shall would be have to get a said lead likely will be issued during the next seven months The rules currently are in various stages of the legal standard process A fifth standard dealing with cancer but without citing any particular chemical , MIND wee come. SN Cape loa Yr os probably will be issued about September she told reporters This will be the first in a = |: +/ planned series of generic standards set- i} ting up procedures to guard workers against 1 broad categories of causing chemi- cala Once thegeneric rules are in place the4 Eula Bingham THE HARD SELL new boss of the federal job safety agency OSHA Hygien- showed up at a National Industrial ists convention last week wearing a red T- shirt that said OSHA wants enlist now Her aldes at the meeting wore enlist in OSHA buttons The job safety agency is hygienists | trying to hire about 300 NOLAK | f Protected Document to Protective Order JNJ 000030652