Whistle blowers

A. Once the situation is understood, the individual scientist should search out a friend, a confidante, and tell him or her the problem and find out what they would do about it. So often one s motives may not be pure. A whistle blower may be a person who might want to leave a company with a bang, and this is the opportunity. The person may have a grudge against someone in the organization. In order to discern one s motivation one needs to talk the matter over with a disinterested party. 

The next step deals with whether the problem can be resolved within the organization without whistle blowing or could it be resolved within one s scientific professional organization. If either will work, then that is the proper place. Again discernment is necessary. The whistle blower might get fired or get his or her funding removed. The risk is great. 

Also, if the insistence is made that only GLP approved studies are acceptable in support of a chemical or its use pattern, will these same standards of scrutiny be applied to studies containing findings that reflect negatively on a chemical Will any reports of toxic or carcinogenic effects be automatically ignored by EPA if they haven t been conducted under verifiable GLP conditions What would be the whistle blowers reaction to that Does anyone really believe EPA will apply the same standards to negative reports that they insist upon for evidence submitted as support ... 

Orey, M. (1999) Assuming the Risk The Mavericks, the Tawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco. Boston, MA Little, Brown and Co. 

A verbal presentation was made and submitted in writing by Gary Harris, a former employee and whistle-blower at the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) facility and at TOCDF, at the committee s meeting of October 18, 2001. 

Rossiter, EJR (1992), Reflections of a whistle-blower. Nature 357 (June 11), pp. 

Clear guidelines as to the right of appeal if a complainant feels that his/her concern is being inappropriately addressed within the Organization, so that the whistle-blower is appropriately protected. 

Moreover, the government entities most heavily involved in investigating and adjudicating federal employee whistle-blowing claims - the Office of Special Counsel, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (FCCA) - have rarely decided in favor of whistle-blowers. 

For example, when hearing cases brought by federal whistle-blowers, the MSPB has decided in favor of the plainhff only about 1 out of every 16 times. As for the FCCA, of the 227 federal whistle-blower cases it heard between 1994 and June 2012, only 3 were decided in favor of whistle-blowers. Moreover, a survey by the MSPB found that whistle-blowers were nine times more likely to be fired in 2010 than they were in 1992. These realihes have made it difficult in practice for federal employee whistle-blowers to prevail and, equally importantly, have... 

Government Accountability Project, Whistle-blower Protection Enhancement Act, http // www.whistleblower.org/whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act-wpea... 

Whistle-Blower Provisional Statutes Enforced by OSHA... 

This section provides a whistle-blower authority to the rule. 

After the explosion during takeoff the following day, Roger said NASA and Morton Thiokol managers tried to distort the truth. He said he and A1 McDonald were relegated to secondary positions, and that he suffered severe mood swings and depression. After he spoke to the Commission of Inquiry in July 1986, he said he was shunned by his colleagues and branded as a whistle-blower, while some people who had supported the launch were still in post. 

If Chris blows the whistle, Chris s career with the company could be over, despite laws to protect whistle-blowers. If Chris does nothing, workers may be exposed to the chemical without safeguards, and... 

Given the above characteristics, why would any chemical engineer be a whistle-blower All three codes of ethics mentioned in Section 23.1.7 require chemical engineers to dedicate their skills to the public welfare, and whistle-blowing has led to inproved automobile safety, safer nuclear and chemical plants, better control of toxic wastes, reduced government waste, safety inprovements in NASA launches, and other laudable results. Whistle-blowers themselves have stated that they could not stand the stress of nondisclosure, which they viewed as an abdication of their ethical responsibilities. In other words, they could be morally autonomous only by whistle-blowing. 

Worse still, there are a growing number of prophets of doom (or whistle blowers) de Kersasdoue [1], who receive intensive media attention as they broadcast forecasts of woe and confusion, seeing every accident— particularly when these have multifactorial causes— as symptoms of a society that has lost its wisdom and self-control (indnstrial hazards, natural disasters, forms of suicidal behaviour in society such as smoking, alcohol or road deaths, economic upheavals). It is hardly surprising that snch a sitnation has turned this issue into an inescapable variable which is acqniring greater public policy— and electoral— importance. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Air Facts. Much of the credit for the successful publication of this pamphlet is due to James Repace, a senior epa scientist, whistle-blower, and active nffe union member, who widely pubhshed his rebuttals to the tobacco industry. On the e pa s building assessment approach, see U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Building Air Quahty. ... 

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