History of the Industrial Safety Movement in the United States
Author : Robert Russell Stone
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Robert Russell Stone
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Quentin R. Ray
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Industrial safety
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
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Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Accidents
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor
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Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Industrial safety
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Considers S. 2820, to extend D.C. worker environment safety standards to all D.C. employers, to rearrange D.C. Industrial Safety Board process of standards variation review, and to give D.C. Court of Appeals sole jurisdiction over safety violation disputes.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 1997-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801854057
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.
Author : Marthe Beckett Kent
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Page : 37 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Industrial hygiene
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
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Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Industrial safety
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Considers (82) S. 2325, (82) S. 2714.