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In article <31E94434.22BE@jrchaff.seanet.com>, jrc <jrchaff@jrchaff.seanet.com> says:
>
>Nicholas Hoh wrote:
>> 
>> In article <31E51297.3828@aol.com>, LECarter <LECarter@aol.com> wrote:
>> >Congress is voting today (7/11/96) (on a rider to Labor-HHS-Education
>> appropriations
>> >bill) to stop  the Occupational Safety & Health Admin. (OSHA) from developing
>> rules
>> >covering Repetitive Stain Injury (RSI, e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome) & from
>> even
>> >COLLECTING DATA on RSI.  This is the most common problem of office workers &
>> computer
>> >users.  For more info, see Washington Post, 7/11/96, p. A4.
>> >
>> >Call & email your congressman & senator NOW!!  Although businesses have good
>> reason to
>> >fear the costs of compliance with OSHA regulation, the costs to society (&
>> your career)
>> >could well be higher if RSI is not better understood & prevented.
>> 
>> Is this article on their web site?  If not could someone please be kind enough
>> to post this and give any more background to this story like why the hell they
>> are doing this!!!!!
>> 
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>> Nicholas Hoh
>> 4A Kinesiology Ergonomics Option
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>It would be a great improvement - as many of us who know first hand
>what a joke OSHA is (more Socialist Demo-Party thinking for you,
>better than you can for yourself) - I say Stop OSHA period. Along
>with Jimmy Carter's absurd Dept of Education - or at least rename
>it what it is - Department of Teacher's Union Lobbyists.
>God save us from idiots.
>JRC

As someone who had realtives in the coal mining industry I have a 
different few of this.  Take a look at the number of miners killed
injured, permentantly disable by blacklung, etc. before the Federal
government stepped in and a few years after.  Look at how often 
this industry (and others) break the rules when they think they 
are not being monitored.  A case in point being the fire in the 
processing plant in the south (Carolina?) were the fire doors were 
locked.  This state had so few inspectors that it would have taken 
decades to inspect everyone and there was *NO* effective  protection
for anyone who reported a violation or for that matter any action
taken when violation were reported.