Showdown at Stanford

Dueling Opinions and Dissension at Ergo Forum

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY - Fed-OSHA billed it as an information-gathering forum to help the agency decide what to do about the long-running, seemingly intractable problem of writing a national standard to deal with ergonomics.What it got was a microcosm of the ground war over a standard. Union representatives claimed that the Bush administration is waging war against workers, business representatives insisted work is the least of the factors leading to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs

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