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Worker Protection Moving Beyond Basic OSHA Compliance

机译：超越基本OSHA法规的工人保护

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Most current OSHA standards were adopted from ANSI standards promulgated before 1970. While many ANSI standards have since been updated to reflect new practices and technologies, many OSHA standards have not, due in part to the lengthy rulemaking process. Some current OSHA standards are silent about hazards that could lead to serious injury or death (e.g., exposures to extreme heat and cold, ergonomic hazards, manual lifting tasks, industrial toxins), while proposed standards that would address known hazards are stuck in the rulemaking process. OSH professionals know that while many standards are effective, it simply may not be correct to state, "It complies with OSHA so it is safe." Simple compliance sometimes permits dangerous exposures to remain. OSH professionals must advocate for worker injury prevention by showing that safety pays. The best way to convince industrial decision makers to spend the money to control hazards is to show them that it is in their economic interest to prevent injury. When a worker is injured because of exposure to a hazard for which there is no OSHA standard, an OSH professional has an opportunity to demonstrate in concrete terms why the company would have been wiser to spend the money to control the hazard. The cost of the control will be far less than the costs associated with serious injury or death. However, OSH professionals need not wait until a tragedy has occurred to show that it is technologically feasible and cost effective to control hazards that could produce serious injury or death-whether OSHA requires it or not.
机译：当前的大多数OSHA标准是从1970年之前发布的ANSI标准中采用的。尽管自那时以来已对许多ANSI标准进行了更新以反映新的实践和技术，但许多OSHA标准并未进行更新，部分原因是漫长的规则制定过程。当前的OSHA标准中未提及可能导致严重伤害或死亡的危害（例如，暴露于极冷和高温，人体工程学危害，手动起吊任务，工业毒素），而解决已知危害的拟议标准则被卡在规则制定中处理。 OSH专业人员知道，尽管许多标准都有效，但声明“它符合OSHA，因此很安全”可能根本不正确。简单的遵守有时会导致危险暴露。 OSH专业人员必须通过证明安全有保障来倡导预防工伤。要说服工业决策者花钱控制危害，最好的方法是向他们表明，防止伤害符合他们的经济利益。当工人因暴露于没有OSHA标准的危害而受伤时，OSH专业人员将有机会具体说明为什么公司明智地花钱来控制危害。控制的成本将远远小于与严重伤害或死亡相关的成本。但是，OSH专业人员不必等到悲剧发生时才表明，控制可能导致严重伤害或死亡的危害在技术上是可行的且具有成本效益，无论OSHA是否需要。

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    《Professional safety》 |2015年第7期|33-37|共5页
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    Vince Gallagher;

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    Safety Research Inc;

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