#HowRegulationCameToBe

#ConfinedSpaces #HowRegulationCameToBe Meanwhile, Rep. Andy Biggs (AZ-05) introduced legislation just last week (Sunday, Feb. 2, the Sabbath) to abolish #OSHA , the federal agency overseeing workplace safety. "Get rid of those pesky regulations!" says the GOP. 13th in series, reposted w/permission.

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

DK GreenRoots - How Regulation came to be: Donora About twenty-five miles upriver of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Monongahela River makes a sweeping horseshoe bend. Nestled in the horseshoe on the west bank or the river is the town of Donora, ...

Some terrain is especially problematic for air pollution. 12th in series, reposted w/permission. #HowRegulationCameToBe #Donora #Inversion #SulfurDiOxide #KillerSmog #Smog #AirQuality #Pennsylvania

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: The Cocoanut Grove Theophilus Van Kannel , a Dutch-American, is generally credited with inventing the revolving door in 1888, although a German patent for a "...

What if people are crowded in a dark club, drinking, noisy, what happens and there's a fire? 11th in series, reposted w/permission. #HowRegulationCameToBe

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Ground Fault, Interrupted When I was a kid, early middle-school age, my buddies and I got hooked on a TV show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis . Now, we were just kids, ten, eleven years old, and to our minds the ...

10th in a series. Reposted with author's permission.
#HowRegulationCameToBe #ElectricalSafety #GFCI #MaynardGKrebs

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: The Cherry Mine Disaster - Part II In our first installment ( Part I, here ) we watched the Cherry, Illinois mine ...

Mining is rife with hazards. 9th in a series. Reposted w/author's permission.
#HowRegulationCameToBe #CoalMines #Illinois #MineSafety #Ventilation #ImmigrantLabor #SurvivorBenefits #Arbitration #FireSafety

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: The Cherry Mine Disaster - Part I They start to appear in the small towns just north of us, where the makeup of the population begins to shift, subtly becoming a little less English, German, and Irish and beginning to trend more ...

Mining is rife with hazards. 8th in a series. Reposted w/permission.
#HowRegulationCameToBe #CoalMines #Illinois #MineSafety #Ventilation

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Red Moon Rising I have a confession. There's a movie I'll stop and watch every time it comes on TV, though I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it. It's a 1989 flick starring Tom Berrenger and Charlie Sheen, with a ...

When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Ohio, 1969. Not the first time either. 7th in a series. Reposted w/permission.
#HowRegulationCameToBe #waterpollution #cleanwater #fishable #swimable

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Construction Summer In past installments in this series, we've looked at regulations that came about in the wake of singular catastrophes that spurred us to action. Sometimes, though, the impetus for regulation is a ...

Which industry has the highest mortality rate? Perhaps not a coincidence that so many immigrants work #construction ?
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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Radium Girls - Part III In the first two parts of Radium Girls, How Regulation came to be: Radium Girls - Part I ...

In this episode, we wind up the story of the Radium Girls. And so, we no longer have glow-in-the-dark clock faces. #5 in a series. Reposted with permission.
#HowRegulationCameToBe #DelayingTactics #WorkplaceSafety #NewJersey #WalterLippman #NewYorkWorld #Radiation

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Radium Girls - Part II I had intended to conclude the Radium Girls' story today, and in fact had it prepared to post that way with one final (albeit very long) installment as of yesterday, but a last minute decision led ...

Radium Girls, part II (of 3)
4th in an ongoing series about #HowRegulationCameToBe

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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: Radium Girls - Part I When I went off to first grade in the fall of 1955, one of the first things our teacher taught us was to tell time. In recognition of my newly-acquired skill, I got my first watch for Christmas ...

3rd in ontinuing series, this one on workplace safety & clocks that glow in the dark. Reposted w/permission of author.
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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: The Iroquois Theater Fire Here's a little mental exercise for you. Picture yourself standing at the front door of your house or apartment preparing to go outside. How do you open the door? Chances are you reach out, grasp ....

Second in a series. A review of where those "pesky" regulations came from seems to be in order just now. Reposted with author's permission.
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Elizabeth Winter

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1 year ago

How Regulation came to be: 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act According to an AP article that appeared in our local daily this morning, one of the tools the federal ...

First in a series of 40+ articles. Seemed like a good time to revisit, given the firehose of attacks on regulation getting underway. (With permission of the author.)
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