Two years and done.That will be part of the legacy of the National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics,created under a recently expired two-year charter as part of the Secretary of Labor's strategy to address ergonomics-related injuries and illnesses in the workplace.Two years in Washington - the length of time between elections in the House of Representatives - can expire quickly.Because the biting issue regarding work-related muscu-loskeletal disorders won't resolve itself any time soon,NACE probably could have operated indefinitely.If asked by OSHA,some panel members might have carried on,but at the 15-member panel's sixth and final meeting Nov.16 and Nov.17,2004,in Washington,there was an air of resignation - that this was it.
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