加州职业安全与健康管理局 (Cal-OSHA) 更新人造石工人保护规则

James Nevin, partner at Brayton Purcell LLP, was quoted in the December 13, 2023 Los Angeles Times article – California embraces emergency rules to protect countertop workers from incurable silicosis as stating: The state’s emergency measure is “an important next step in the right direction,” but does not go far enough to protect workers, said James Nevin, an attorney with Brayton Purcell, one of the firms representing countertop workers and their families.  Nevin said it ignores research showing that even when protections are in place, “the levels of silica are still too high and still cause silicosis.” Georgia Tech researchers, for instance, found that wet methods and ventilation did not bring silica levels below the exposure limit when workers were cutting engineered stone.

当被要求进一步发表评论时，内文先生进一步表示：“这是标准委员会一方面是健康专家，另一方面是强大的制造商游说团体妥协的结果，因此它还不足以保护工人。例如，硅肺病的预计患病率和死亡率被远远低估。此外，它基本上采纳了制造商的说法，即问题是由制造车间雇主不遵守 OSHA 规则造成的。它忽略了这样一个事实：大多数制造工厂根本无法承担实施 OSHA 措施的高额成本。它忽略了 OSHA 完全缺乏执行这些规则的能力。最后，它忽略了澳大利亚安全工作局的最新调查结果，即根本不可能使人造石的制造对制造工人来说是安全的，因此必须禁止它。”

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