2004 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
Following is The Business Council's 2004 Legislative Program. It identifies priority issues to be addressed by the Committees and Councils during 2004.
- Support legislation to license occupational safety and hygiene professionals.
- Continue to assist in the development of homeland security issues
as they relate to the business community.
- Respond to mold related legislation to ensure that the public is
protected and to ensure that safety and health professionals are recognized
as qualified to oversee mold remediation activities.
- Strongly oppose any effort by the state to develop and implement
its own state OSHA plan.
- Oppose legislation that would place restrictions on the use of, or
set state-level equipment standards for VDT's in the workplace.
- Oppose legislation that would impose state-level regulations in areas
pre-empted by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. For example,
oppose legislation that would mandate that employers provide medical
monitoring services for all employees within broad occupational categories.
- Propose and support amendments to the state's asbestos abatement
law to make it more risk-based by exempting from regulation those activities
and materials which do not pose a threat.
- Support amendments to sections 240 and 241 of the labor law to create
a comparative negligence standard on third party suits.
- Continue to monitor activities of the New York State Occupational Health Clinics Network and to promote business participation on local OHCN advisory committees.
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