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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
1994
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- Free trade and ocupatitional health policy: an argument for health and safety across the north american workplace Michael J. McGuinnes Salud Mexico European Community law occupational health and safety European Community institutions Key words North Amencan Free Trade Agreement This article considers the argument that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would encourage us and Canadian industry to relocate their hazardous manufacturing operations to Mexico. Proponents of this view believe that this industrial jlight south would worsen working conditions in Mexico as well as lower occupational health and safety standards in the w and Canada. In evaluating this argument, the article examines working conditions in US-owned factories in the Mexican maquiladora zone, reviews the current occupational health and safety regulatory structure in Mexico, and considers those institutions established by the European Community to protect workers against the jlight of hazardous industries. The article concludes that the harmonization of labor notms throughout North America and the establishment of a functional North American regulatory structure following the precedents set by the European Community are necessary steps to ensure that NAFTA does not produce the fearedflight of hazardous industnes to Mexico nor degrade the health of workers in Mexico, Canada, or the US 1994 artículo científico 0036-3634 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10636604 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=106 Salud Pública de México application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Salud Pública de México (México) Num.6 Vol.36