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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Over the years, many public policy statements by the U.S. Congress and by executive agencies within government have established clearly that death, disease and injury should be avoided on the job. Therefore, the law, though untested, on its face gives workers the right to refuse to allow themselves to be exposed to chemicals that they believe may be harmful, even though the chemicals do not violate any particular standard or regulation. Thus, from the language of the law, it appears that New Jersey workers can also refuse to participate in any activity that they reasonably believe would pollute or damage the natural environment. Yet the law gives New Jersey workers rights that workers elsewhere do not have.