NACOSH Presses OSHA On Oil Rigs, Cancer Policy, MSD, Silica, Recordkeeping

OSHA is facing pressure from its top advisory panel to step up efforts to oversee oil rig safety, carcinogens, injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2), recordkeeping, musculoskeletal disorder recording, and silica. The National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) touched on all of these issues, as well as NIOSH funding cuts, in votes last week. (See coverage of I2P2, recordkeeping, MSD, NIOSH funding and silica). A health and safety source characterized the meeting as very productive. “It's a good, solid committee, a diverse group, that's working well together a