Hazards Technology and Fairness (1986) / Chapter Skim
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At every stage of the process, from the time of the first NIOSH reports on lead exposure until OSHA's promulgation of the final standard for occupational exposure to lead, the centrality of politics was evident. This was not an aberration but an inevitable consequence of the fact that the process of risk assessment and that of standard setting both involved not only the threshold matters of whether given exposures posed a potential hazard for workers but also questions of how the burdens of risk were to be borne.
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V-4~. To maintain a blood level of 80 ,ug, NIOSH proposed that no worker be exposed to an air lead level of more than 150 ,ug/m3 (NIOSH, 1972, p.
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Furthermore, to achieve the required blood lead levels, Samuels demanded that air lead exposure be reduced to 50 ,ug/m3 of air 25 percent of the prevailing OSHA standard, and one-third of the standard being proposed by NIOSH (Proceedings, 1975, p.
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Despite these limitations, OSHA's preliminary proposal was noteworthy in several respects. It broke with the tradition of lead toxicology that had been dominated by George Kehoe, and indeed with much prevailing professional opinion, by asserting that clinically significant changes might well occur at blood lead levels below 80,ug/ 100 g (OSHA, 1975, p.
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