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4. Too bad Eula Bingham - probably the best OSHA director - didn't live to see this milestone

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Apr 29, 2021, 03:16 PM

Apr 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/eula-bingham-champion-of-worker-safety-dies-at-90.html

OSHA director Eula Bingham discusses workplace risks with President Carter in 1977.

Her tenure was arguably the most activist since OSHA's creation - though many of her recommendations were either never implemented, or rescinded in the Reagan years.

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