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Industry Partisanship of ACOEM
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Industry Partisanship of ACOEM

Joseph LaDou, Daniel Teitelbaum, David Egilman, Arthur Frank, Sharon Kramer, James Huff and none
International journal of occupational and environmental health, v 14(1), pp 80-81
01 Jan 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/oeh.2008.14.1.80
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Abstract

Beryllium Chemicals Environmental health Fines & penalties Hazardous substances Health hazards Medicine Occupational safety Workers
ACOEM's "Eight Best Ideas for Workers' Compensation Reform," published in 1998 and re-endorsed by (then-ACOEM President-Elect) Tee Guidotti in 2006, fails to forward even one proposal to restructure workers' compensation programs so that the cost to employers truly incentivizes them to prevent worker injury and disease.9,10 Similarly, we could not find a single mention on their web site of efforts to improve the enforcement capacity of OSHA or EPA, or increase penalties for occupational or environmental health violations. In this vein, we urge ACOEM to advocate for strict regulation of occupational and environmental hazards, including policies modeled after the EU's electronic waste regulations discussed by LaDou and Lovegrove in this issue and the EU's REACH policy, which would require the testing of all chemicals used in the workplace or consumer products, and impose strict control of those chemicals that are found to be carcinogenic and otherwise hazardous to human health.

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