Occupational licensing is increasingly widespread throughout American industry. Incumbent firms believe that licensing prevents competition by new entrants that would drive down prices. Public ...

American policymakers are approaching cross-ideological consensus about the use and abuse of occupational licensing. Occupational licensing is a kind of labor regulation that has spread across America ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of December 29, 1970, states “An Act: To assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women …” Section 5 of the Act titled Duties goes on to ...

Workplace exposure to gases, dusts, fumes, and aromatic solvents used in paints, varnishes, and glues, is linked to waning lung capacity above and beyond that associated with normal aging, finds a ...

Cancer Causes & Control, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 37-47 (11 pages) Objective: To study the risk of kidney cancer following asbestos exposure. Methods: We carried out a meta-analysis of the ...

THOUSANDS of people are blinded each year from work-related eye injuries that could have been prevented with the proper selection and use of eye and face protection. Eye injuries alone cost more than ...

Objectives Inconsistent epidemiological findings, debate over interpretation, and extrapolation of findings from animal studies to humans have produced uncertainty surrounding the carcinogenicity of ...