Abstract
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration's proposed massive revision of permissible exposure levels for hundreds of chemicals in the workplace is taking a beating during the more than two weeks of public testimony on the proposal. Many witnesses have assailed the levels proposed for individual substances, but many also have been critical of the methods the agency used for the entire regulation. When OSHA was first set up, one of its early actions to protect workers from exposures to hazardous chemicals was to adopt in 1971 a regulation on permissible exposure levels for many chemicals that had been developed by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). In the ensuing 17 years, ACGIH has made many changes to its recommendations, adding new chemicals to its list of hazardous workplace chemicals and lowering the safe exposure levels for others. The OSHA levels, however, did not change, and are still the same as set in 1971. ...
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