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Protection on the job has not kept up with new technology, especially in Canada, where research on health hazards is lagging and experts say workers are in effect being used as guinea pigs
Protection on the job has not kept up with new technology, especially in Canada, where research on health hazards is lagging and experts say workers are in effect being used as guinea pigs

Protection on the job has not kept up with new technology, especially in Canada, where research on health hazards is lagging and experts say workers are in effect being used as guinea pigs

Date1/25/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Protection on the job has not kept up with new technology; especially in Canada; where research on health hazards is lagging and experts say workers are in effect being used as guinea pigs.
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The guinea pigs
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