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Mar 27, 2020 10:43

Once upon a time, as a bored loser of a college freshman, I got my hands on a paper copy of the OSHA Handbook, and I read that garbage cover to cover like a trashy novel. That book was even a few years old at the time, as the intent was to put all the information onto CD-ROM, and then to also make it accessible online. They did get partway there, and for a while all that information was available if you knew how to look for it, but somehow things shifted along the way and it became such that if you wanted information on some specific something, you needed to write into OSHA and ask for a copy of a page from the MSDS to be mailed to you. This is a very slow and inconvenient way of obtaining information, but it's what we are left with. All the information has been removed. It's amazing to have watched this process unfold over the course of decades, much as those zany college professors warned us it would.

eidetic, whiney

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