Environmental and Occupational Health Protection Laws
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C29. Env&OccHProtnLaw_PBLH00278.pdf
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Author(s)
Ashford, Nicholas A.
Caldart, Charles
Date Issued
2008
Abstract
The manufacturing, processing, and use of chemicals and materials in industrial workplaces are often accompanied by
environmental, health, and safety hazards and risks. Occupational and environmental factors cause or exacerbate
major diseases of the respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, and nervous systems and cause systemic poisoning and
some cancers and birth defects. Occupational and environmental disease and injury place heavy economic and social
burdens on workers, employers, citizens, and taxpayers. Government intervention to address those issues largely takes
the form of regulatory standards promulgated under the authority of federal legislation. This article addresses the
major regulatory systems (or regimes) designed to protect public and worker health from chemicals discharged from
sources that pollute the air, water, ground, and/or workplace in the United States. The European Union and other
developed countries use similar approaches.
Description
Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act; Environmental health; Environmental legislation; Hazardous waste; Occupational heath; Occupational safety;
Occupational Safety and Health Act; Pollution; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Safe Drinking Water Act;
Toxic substances; Toxic Substances Control Act; Worker health and safety
Subjects
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Toxic substances
Worker
health
safety
environmental
legislation
occupational safety
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