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OSHA Regulation of Low-Exposure Carcinogens: A New Approach to Judicial Analysis of Scientific Evidence


Victor Byers Flatt


UNC Chapel Hill School of Law; University of Houston Global Energy Management Institute
January 1991

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 283, 1991

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The current OSHA method for quantifying harms from toxics does not work as well as it should. Much of the problem lies with a judiciary that fails in sceintific literacy governing risk, exposure, and harm. This article suggests that a cadre of sceintific evidence judicial masters would be an appropriate way for federal courst reviewing risk regulation under OSHA to improve their understanding of the science of risk and exposure.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 27

Keywords: OSHA, toxics, carcinogen, risk, benzene, AFL-CIO, scientific uncertainty, judicial masters

JEL Classification: D61, D62, D63, D73, D81, I18, J28, K23, K31, K32, L65

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Flatt, Victor Byers, OSHA Regulation of Low-Exposure Carcinogens: A New Approach to Judicial Analysis of Scientific Evidence (January 1991). Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 283, 1991. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1981725

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Victor Byers Flatt (Contact Author)
UNC Chapel Hill School of Law ( email )
Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road
CB #3380
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.law.unc.edu/faculty/directory/details.aspx?cid=1022
University of Houston Global Energy Management Institute ( email )
Houston, TX 77204-6021
United States
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