Hygienist Work Group On PELs Ramping Up Again As OSHA Takes Tentative Steps

A key occupational health group will reconstitute a work group of some dozen experts on OSHA permissible exposure limits (PELs) to help identify potential approaches to updating the regulatory caps, an official familiar with the issue told Inside OSHA Online. OSHA's planned request for information (RFI) on PEL updates, which the agency says in its new regulatory agenda could be issued by August, has reinvigorated a years-old stakeholder push for coordinated efforts to address the problem, the official says. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) has not taken formal steps to provid