right-to-know laws

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right-to-know laws,

laws that require employers to inform workers regarding health effects of materials they must handle, including toxic chemicals and radioactive substances. Under the authority of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health periodically revises recommendations or limits of exposure to potentially hazardous substances in the workplace. It also recommends appropriate preventive measures designed to reduce or eliminate adverse health effects of these hazards and publishes its recommendations in a variety of public documents.

right-to-know laws,

n.pl laws that require employers to inform workers regarding health effects of materials they must handle, including toxic chemicals and radioactive substances. Right-to-know statutes are administered under the authority of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

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No references found			Other European police forces seem to have got the idea so it's frustrating Garda chiefs still haven't signed up to the right-to-know laws. IRISH DAILY Mirror COMMENT: Public have right to know by The Mirror (London, England) Piercy opposed AOI's agenda on such issues as family leave, employer liability and toxics right-to-know laws. Direction at issue in contest for mayor by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Still, new horror stories continue to turn up: paperwork provided by right-to-know laws in January revealed the Monsanto Corporation's decades-long cover up of its massive dumping of PCBs--an environmental hazard and probable human carcinogen--in Anniston, Alabama. The war on the right to know by Runyan, Curtis / World Watch			right subclavian artery right suprarenal vein right testicular vein right thoracic duct Right to Refuse Treatment Right to Treatment right umbilical vein right upper quadrant right ventricle right ventricular dysplasia right ventricular failure right ventricular hypertrophy right ventricular opening right ventricular thrust right-brained right-eyed right-footed right-hand rule right-handed right-handedness Right-heart cardiac catherization right-heart failure right-sided failure right-sided heart failure right-to-die right-to-know laws right-to-left shunt rightangle forceps righting reactions righting reflex righting response rights of animals rigid rigid bronchoscope rigid bronchoscopy rigid gas permeable contact lens rigid hysteroscope rigid lamb disease Rigid Loop Sign rigid spine syndrome rigidity rigidus rigor rigor mortis Riley-Day syndrome Riley-Smith syndrome Rilutek riluzole rim Rim Pattern Rim Sign			right-side up right-side-out right-side-up Right-sided cardiac catheterization right-sided cardiac enlargement right-sided cardiac enlargement right-sided cardiac enlargement Right-Sided Circulatory Failure right-sided failure right-sided heart failure right-sided heart failure right-sided heart failure right-sided heart failure right-sided heart failure, right ventricular heart failure right-sided heart failure, right ventricular heart failure right-sided heart failure, right ventricular heart failure Right-Sided Round Ligament Right-Sided Superior Vena Cava Right-skewed distribution Right-skewed distribution Right-skewed distribution right-slip fault Right-Tailed Test right-thinking Right-Time Bank right-to-die right-to-die right-to-die right-to-die right-to-know right-to-know laws Right-to-Left Embedding Right-to-left mark Right-to-Left Override right-to-left shunt right-to-left shunt right-to-left shunt right-to-left shunt right-to-life right-to-life right-to-lifer right-to-lifer right-to-lifers Right-To-Use Right-to-work Right-to-work Right-to-work Right-to-work right-to-work law right-to-work law right-to-work law right-to-work law Right-to-work laws Right-to-work laws Right-to-work laws Right-to-work laws Right-to-work state Right-to-work state Right-Triangulated Irregular Networks Right-Upper Corner Cell Right-whale Dolphin

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