The 25th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act couldn’t have come at a more opportune time for Joe Dear and Linda Rosenstock, who head the two agencies created by the legislation in 1970.
Instruments today can calibrate themselves, calculate time-weighted averages and short-term exposure limits, and operate with the touch of only two or three buttons, one of which is the on/off switch.
The Safety Culture Revolution Web site was created by the worker safety committee that represents nearly 1,000 people in the plant engineering department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.