Thorne Auchter is the former Director of the U.S.
Occupational Safety & Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration'' (OSHA ) is a large regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. Congress established the agenc ...
(OSHA) from 1981 to 1984, during the early part of the
Reagan Administration,
replacing former President
Jimmy Carter's appointee
Eula Bingham
Eula Bingham (July 9, 1929 – June 13, 2020) was an American scientist, best known as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. During her tenure as the head of OSHA, she el ...
. He is also the former director of the American lobbying group
Federal Focus
Federal Focus, Inc was a public relations and lobbying company established about 1986 by Thorne G. Auchter (ex-head of the U.S. OSHA) and James J. Tozzi who had run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (later to become the Office of Ma ...
' Institute for Regulatory Policy.
Historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have written that Auchter's appointment to head OSHA illustrates the Reagan Administration strategy for undermining New Deal programs by appointing key officials who opposed the stated mission of their agencies. Autchter's construction firm "had repeatedly been fined by OSHA in the past."
In 1994, Auchter testified to OSHA's Public Meeting on Standards Planning Process on the safety of
secondhand smoke.
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See also
*Good Epidemiological Practices
Good Epidemiological Practices or Good Epidemiology Practices (GEP) was a set of guidelines produced by the U.S. Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) in 1991 to improve epidemiologic research practices. It was then adopted by the tobacco indus ...
References
Reagan administration personnel
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
American lobbyists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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