Gauging Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety andHealth: An Appraisal of OSHA's Analytic Approach

摘要

This report reviews the roles that analyses of control technology and regulatoryimpacts play in OSHA's standard setting process, and evaluates the various methods and resources on which the agency draws in conducting these efforts. In addition, based on findings from close examinations of a number of OSHA's past rulemakings, the report provides a critical appraisal of how well these analyses seem to be helping the agency achieve its basic occupational safety and health mission.