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This authoritative reference helps human resources professionals and workplace safety officers comply with state workplace safety laws and regulations. the State by State Guide to Workplace Safety Regulation, 2004 Edition emphasizes practical methods of developing and implementing workplace safety policies and offers guidance on how to ensure that the workplace is in compliance with state laws and regulations. This guide organizes essential information in in the form of charts, making it easy to locate information concerning one state's treatment of a particular issue or to compare the treatment of a particular issue by several different states.With recent developments in workplace safety regulations, including the focus on the workplace security, ergonomics, video display terminals, and regulation of homeworkers, it has become apparent that workplace safety compliance must be a priority not only for manufacturing, construction, and industrial employers traditionally concerned with workplace safety issues but also for employers formerly unaffected by the application of workplace safety regulations to their operations. Employers with office or clerical staff may face citations for violating state workplace safety regulations.