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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1985 Sept DOC PAINT081 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL RELATIONS observ~ s U.S. Day Labor : / ee page - Cleanup Local 411Aids in Nuclear 7 Battle Against Tax on Fringes Continues 110_7SIeBnPioArTsSSpeeeckiMaledRiecpaolrCtosYtoCuornSttaaiknemiein nnStocial Security . DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENTS From the General President Local andDistrict Council News :yn - Sportsand Recreation : Seal FinancialReport CoverThe General Treasurer Reports RESIDENTIAL # COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIALSIGN INDUSTRIALSIGNPICTORIAL AIRCRAFT OF AEE Oe, wget te a WILLIAM A.DUVAL _ General President 1750 New York Avenue N.W. me Washington D.C. 20006 Lo A. MONROE . ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK AND on or GLAZING GLAZING PAINT AND LINOLEUMSOFT Os 3 body . BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE =: UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL ree member or subordinate . . ae ; ,G,eneral TreasurerN.W. 1750 New York Avenue N.W. . -. Washington D.C.20006 General VicePresidents OP OO BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI | : . 1st DistrictWestcher : 1443 Westchester Boulevard or Westchester Ill 60153 ... one MICHAEL E.MONROE 2nd District District _ N.W. provide eral law to right to know if workers theyare atrisk Medicine pationalit of contracting related diseases : : Dr. Irving Selikoffprofessor of at theMt.Sinai School of porter :of theBrotherhood'ssafety medical efforts was among thewitnesses who urgedspeedy passage ofthe tion *. High Risk Occupational PreventionDisease Act Prevention rently knownin properly properly proerly medical conducted . surveillance programs. because it of occupational dwiistehahosleding of getting The measure wouldrequrire equire the gov- ernment to tell workerswhen they have been identified as being at an high risk an _ try to prevent of for those atgreatest risk In pointing the uptheethical the tionssurrounding the withholding disease4-13. a3ra-. ofnotification from potentialoccu- berTshousands At present workersidentified in . pational - disease victimspoten-ial Selikoff of Dr. Selikoff as the . scientific studies such asthose un- stressed that whetherwe inform . physician who examined delegates in _ ultimately dertaken Dr. Selikoff in cooper- people of risks | can oe be to the23d Convention in1974 and who has madevaluable contribu- a by tions to IBPAT's safety and health es _ program since themsafety Dr.andSelikoff Trades Win Net was an honored guestat last year's Safety Rulincigtation faBsutienlidnigng by Rub- federal during The CIO & Construction Trades Department scored - 2be5etnh GwiedneelryalcrCeodintveednwtiitohn bHriedghiansg a victory for workers in the steel erection industry when a .. the gap between medicine and oc- appeals court in Boston ruled on the use of safety nets the cupational hazards medicne and for this The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a . workwas presented with the AFL- Occupational Safety & Health Administrationagainst | the Daniel Marr & Son Co. for failing to protect its employees who work as- CIO's Murray . Award la- bor's highest in 1979 connectors together the steel beams the erec- Dr. Selikoffwasjoined by tion of a buildingand Ironworkers the in intervened The BCTD and theIronworkers had in case :berWorkers PresidentMilanStone _ ground connectors chairman outside support of OSHA which had inspected the erection of the steel and by Howard D. Samuelpresi- frame of a turbine generator building at the Seabrook N.H. N.H. nuclear dent of the AFL Industrial power plant the request request of Ironworkers Local 474 Union Dept Joseph Misbrener : The OSHA inspector feetin May 1982 observed four work- president ofWorkes the OilChemical & _ ing withoutnets feetabove the aand nd 40 feet above the Atomic Workersand Michael Mc- = nearest inside floor He cited thecompany company for not havingsafety nets inside and Closkey Club ,. of | . the. Sierra subcommittees the the structure Marr Co. contested both citationswhichwere later Witneses Witnesses told 3 upheld by an administrative law judge The firm appealed the ex- cation passage of the | high risk notifi- terior net citation to theOccupational Safety& Health Review Com- cation billisalong overdue com- mission which overturned the law judge's ruling by a 2 to vote: mitment to and - simple In reversing the OSHRC decision the judge appellate court justice fairness 1 e panel would saidthe LaborSecretary'sSecretary's interpretation of the department's The House bill require the deference regulations logical safety should be given if it is and Secretary of Health & Human Ser- i vices to establish certified occupa- + reasonable appeals in Philadelphia overturned Soon afteran court also an : tionalcenters and: environmental health ; " OSHRC requirement that workers actually be exposed to the danger - centers to provide medical monitor- of a head injurybefore an employer be held to have violated ing examinations and related ser- = the requirements for hard hats The court held proof of access by ; vices to workerswho are notified at aWorker to a zone of danger iis s sufficient forOSHAtoact that theysk theysk of arelated ddiseaise sease