My Ideal Chemical Policy

After reviewing the content of Module 8, the workers "right-to-know" concern strikes me as the largest environmental health issue. In my ideal chemical policy, open disclose of any/all (though I'd really try and decrease my use of toxic chemicals/pesticides altogether) toxic chemicals/pesticides would be paramount. Furthermore, I'd take my workers care a step further by providing regular medical checks. These medical checks would screen my workers for any symptoms of the side effects of the adverse health issues caused by the chemicals they were working with while employed by me. My goal with this program would be to identify health issues caused by these chemicals/toxins before they progressed to their final/terminal stage. I realize that a program such as this would be expensive, and there would need to be rules/guidelines that made financial sense of some sort, but this seems like a high priority item to me. If the company that is asking these workers to handle toxic chemicals is not supporting their employees health then the duty ultimately falls on workers themselves - and getting sick in America is an outrageously expensive endeavor. I think that obligation lies with the company first to try and stop these illnesses in their tracks rather than wait for a worker to feel so ill that they seek medical attention and discover that they're in the final stages of lung cancer.