...OSHA is required to promulgate standards dealing with toxic materials "which most adequately assure, to the extent feasible, on the basis of the best available...functional capacity even if such employee has regular exixisure to the hazard dealt with my such standard for the period of his working life;'1 the extent...

...regulations. The legislation states that OSHA ". . . shall set the standards which most adequately assure to the extent feasible, on the basis of the best available...employee will suffer material impairment [of health]." OSHA regulations have been proposed and promulgated without the degree of economic analysis that characterizes...

...the Secretary determines to be necessary. Standards should assure, on the basis of the best currently available evidence, that no employee will suffer material...health or functional capacity even if such employee engages in the production or use of recoabinant DNA molecules for an entire working lifetime. The legislation...

...the Secretary determines to be necessary. Standards should assure, on the basis of the best currently available evidence, that no employee will suffer material...health or functional capacity even if such employee engages in the production or use of recombinant DNA molecules for an entire working lifetime. The legislation...

...OSHA is required to promulgate standards dealing with toxic materials "which most adequately assure, to the extent feasible, on the basis of the best available...employee has regular exposure to the hazard dealt with my such standard for the period of his working life:" the extent to which "feasible" means that the...

...Act provides that the "Secretary, in promulgating standards dealing with toxic materials or harmful physical agents under this subsection, shall set the...which most adequately assures, to the extent feasible, that no employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity * * * ." Because...

...of the Occupational, Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) which states in relevant part The Secretary. . .shall set the standard which most adequately assures,...such standard for the period of his working life... In addition to the attainment of the highest degree of health and safety protection for the employee,...

...Specifically, when regulating substances such as cotton dust, OSHA is statutorily limited to setting: . . . the standard which most adequately assures, to the...such standard for the period of his working life. 29U.SC § 655 (b) (5) (emphasis added). Thus Congress required that standards be "feasible," and 154...

...issue standards setting permissible exposure limits to toxic substances "which most adequately assure, to the extent feasible, on the basis of the best available...such standard for the period of his working life." To enforce the regulations, the legislation grants OSHA the authority to inspect workplaces and impose...

...toxic materials or harmful physical agents, they should adequately assure, to the extent feasible, that no employee will suffer material impairment of...such standard for the period of his working life, by such means as, in the development and promulgation of standards, obtaining the best available evidence...