Agency Plans To Issue At Least Three Final Rules In FY '12, Hike Standards Funding In FY '13

OSHA plans to publish three final standards in fiscal 2012 -- electric power, consultation agreements and confined spaces in construction -- and it continues to await White House clearance to publish a rule to align its hazard communication regulation with the Globally Harmonized System of classifying and labeling chemicals, the agency says. “OSHA will also continue its work on silica, injury and illness prevention programs, combustible dust, infectious diseases and other worker protection priorities,” agency chief David Michaels said in a web chat Monday on the administration's proposed budge