Potential Hazards in Small Business—A Gap in OSHA Protection
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Industrial Hygiene
- Vol. 3 (2) , 55-57
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08828032.1988.10388510
Abstract
The health and safety problems of the small business community for the most part have been overlooked by local, state, and federal governments. The occupational health program of the City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services has conducted several hundred consultative industrial hygiene surveys within the small business community. The results provide details of 350 surveys conducted among the following industries: auto body paint and repair shops, blue-line printers, dry cleaners, plastic extruders, and radiator repair shops. The average number of recommendations per industry ranged from 6 to 16. The absence of formal health and safety programs, exposures to solvents, toxic metal dusts/fumes, inadequate respiratory protection, and engineering controls were among the most common and serious problems found.Keywords
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