Industry Still Worries That Chemical Exposure Limit Postings May Drive Enforcement

OSHA chief David Michaels found himself answering the same basic question, albeit phrased different ways, several times in a conference call on OSHA's campaign to inform employers of chemical hazards: How could the agency somehow leverage the newly available resources in a hypothetical enforcement action? Each time his answer was basically the same: OSHA has no plans to use the educational push as an enforcement tool. But still, questions linger – with industry persistently raising apprehensions about how the new data tools propagated by the agency could be used.