ABSTRACT
A general social justice problem entailed in the differential protection of people from hazards is apparent with the cases of three hypothetical individuals: a Connecticut glassblower whose workplace exposure to nitrogen oxides, while deemed ‘safe’, was nearly 25 times greater than his exposure outside the factory; a neighbour of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant whose work decontaminating the plant will expose him to much higher levels of radiation than those experienced by members of the public during the accident; and a US embassy employee in Moscow whose microwave exposure, while exceeding permissible levels in the Soviet Union, was only 1/500th of that allowed in the US.
