Mangan Communications (2005), a publisher of OSHA safety standards for business, reports that there are a host of occupations that place limitations on jewelry in compliance with OSHA's general safety regulations such as 29 CFR 1910. These include, but are not limited to, manufacturing industries, processing industries, and healthcare and health-related industries.
             For example in cereal processing which is the treatment of cereals and other plants to prepare their starch for human food, animal feed, or industrial use, chemicals are often used and OSHA stipulations for this and other reasons include limitations on wearing jewelry of many types for those actually involved in the processing. On the other hand, employees with no involvement in processing of any type (e.g., clerical personnel) often will not have to adhere to these restrictions.
             In some cases, these rather general stipulations by OSHA have been interpreted by various companies and plants to deny employees the right to wear wedding bands. However, in this regard, Shaw (2004, p. 1) reports that:
             The courts have found companies within their rights to deny employees the right to wear even wedding bands, depending on the job.
             Still, this is not always the case with OSHA regulations. For example, constitutional considerations, specifically first amendment rights, resulted in the Amish being allowed freedom from many OSHA regulations on the grounds that compliance violated their religious rights (Baxter, 2004). Similar freedom has been granted to the court for the religious rights of Sikhs (McManis, 1999).
             In other words, the findings of the courts are mixed and religious rights can operate, at least in some cases, to deny OSHA compliance while in other cases religious considerations can be overruled. Given that wearing of wedding bands is often associated with religious meaning such as the need of married people to signal this commitment and thereby limit unwa...