The labor members of this task force include: Co-chair Bob DeMatteo, Ontario Public Service Employees Union; Colin Lambert, Canadian Union of Public Employees; and Dan Ublansky, Energy and Chemical Workers Union. Employer members are: Co-chair Glenn Weston, Stelco Steel; David Gaylor, ICI Canada; Roland Hosein, GE Canada; and Bruce Waechter, Ford Motors Canada.
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AlexiadisAnnette, “Comparison of Worldwide Procedures for Setting Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs),”Occupational Health in Ontario11 (1990): 168–192.
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The Labor Caucus recognizes that we will not be rid of TLVs all at once, since so many Western countries derived their limits from the ACGIW list at some point. However, we hope over time to totally dispense with our previous dependence on TLVs.
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Labor's critical perspective on TLVs has been vindicated by a deluge of recent articles, including:
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CastlemanB. and ZiemG, “Corporate Influence on Threshold Limit Values,”American Journal of Industrial Medicine13 (1988): 531–559.
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SassR.“What's in a Name? The Occupational Hygienist's Problem with Threshold Limit Values,”American Journal of Industrial Medicine14 (1988): 355–363.
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New Jersey State Department of Health, Testimony at the Informal Hearings on OSHA's Proposal to Update Permissible Exposure limitsby R.T. Zagranski, Trenton N.J., 1988.
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ZiemG. and CastlemanB.“Threshold Limit Values: Historical Perspectives and Current Practice,”Journal of Occupational Medicine13 (1989): 910–918.
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Fiserova-BergerovaV.PierceJ. and DrozP., “Dermal Absorption Potential of Industrial Chemicals: Criteria for Skin Notation,”American Journal of Industrial Medicine17 (1990): 617–635.
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RoachS. and RappaportS.“But They Are Not Thresholds: A Critical Review of the Documentation for TLVs,”American Journal of Industrial Medicine17 (1990): 727–753.
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International Federation of Chemical, Energy and General Workers' Unions, Threshold Limit Values: Best Prevailing Standards, Brussels: ICEF, 1988.
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Exposure Values and Limits Task Force, “Ongoing Process to Establish and Revise Occupational Exposure Limits,”Appendix to the Minutes of the Exposure Values and Limits Task Force, January 21, 1991.
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A number of documents and articles address this issue, including: National Research Council, Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health. Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, Washington: National Academy Press, 1983.
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CwitcoG., “Labor Perspective on Science and Public Policy,”Occupational Health in Ontario11 (1990): 40–52.
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BrickmanR.JasanoffS. and IlgenT.“The Politics of Scientific Uncertainty” in Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
