July 26, 2011 at 07:14 PM
OSHA's key advisory panel on construction safety and health plans to tackle two major subjects -- preventing backover injuries and fatalities, and safety around reinforcing steel -- as new items in meetings this week in Washington. The agency says it brought the issues to the panel's attention because they were recently added to the regulatory agenda, and OSHA wants the committee to provide recommendations on them. Both are in prerule stages. Meanwhile the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) has dropped other subjects for which OSHA says committee work has been conclud