Is OMB Interfering with Worker Health and Safety Protection?

Keeney Ralph , “Mortality Risks Induced by Economic Expenditures” Risk Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1990, pp. 147–159.

Letter from MacRae James B. Jr. , Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, to Ms. Nancy Risque Rohrback, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor, March 10, 1992, p. 1.

International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers, UAW, et. al. v. OSHA, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 89–1559.

Kitagawa E. M. and Hauser P. M. , Differential Mortality in the United States of America. A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973.

Keeney , p. 155.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 149.

Hadley Jack and Osei Anthony , “Does Income Affect Mortality? An Analysis of the Effects of Different Types of Income on Age/Sex/ Race-Specific Mortality Rates in the United States, Medical Care, September 1982, Vol. XX, No. 9, p. 901.

Ibid.

Ibid., pp. 902–903.

Ibid., p. 912.

MacRae letter, p. 1.

Wildavsky Aaron , Searching for Safety, Transaction Books, New Brunswick and London, 1988.

Keeney , p. 148.

Wildavsky , p. 73.

Ibid.

Testimony of Dr. Ruth Ruttenberg, Senior Associate, Ruttenberg, Kilgallon & Associates on Behalf of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, Before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Public Hearings on the Concrete and Masonry Construction Safety Standard, June 17, 1986.

Viscusi Kip W. , “Procedures for Valuing Job Risk Reduction Benefits: A Report Prepared for the OSHA Office of Regulatory Analysis,” June 1983.

Ibid, p. 24.

Ibid, pp. 25–26.

Ibid, p. 22.

Viscusi Kip W. , Risk By Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace, Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 1.

Ruth Ruttenberg, “Why Social Regulatory Policy Requires New Definitions and Techniques for Assessing Costs and for Assessing Benefits: The Case of Occupational Safety and Health,” Labor Studies Journal, Spring 1981, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Research cited in Susan Dirks-Mason and Ruth Ruttenberg, “The Effects of the OSHA Vinyl Chloride Standard on the Vinyl Chloride Industry,” prepared for the OSHA Policy Office, August 1979.

Ruttenberg Ruth , Compliance with the OSHA Cotton Dust Rule: The Role of Productivity Improving Technology, for the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, No. 233-7050.0, March 1983.

Ruttenberg Ruth , The Incorporation of Prospective Technological Changes into Regulatory Analysis Which is Used in the Planning of Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

“Statement of Ruth Ruttenberg, on Behalf of the AFL-CIO, Before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Public Hearings on Proposed Noise Standards,” July 1974.