An advisory panel addressing workplace safety issues among federal workers will unveil new recommendations on ways to update OSHA permissible exposure limits (PELs) at a May 3 meeting in Washington, OSHA says. The tentative agenda for the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH) includes a review of revised recommendations on PELs from the FACOSH Emerging Issues -- Permissible Exposure Limits Work Group, proposed changes to the OSHA recordkeeping rule, and H1N1 recommendations the Labor Secretary recently approved. The panel late last year discussed potentially recom
