Safety and health stakeholders are pressuring OSHA to move ahead as quickly as possible to issue a proposed rule updating the standard on workplace exposures to crystalline silica as the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) continues its extended review of the agency's proposal. The National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) voted at its June 22 meeting in Washington to recommend that OSHA move swiftly on its crystalline silica rulemaking, which has been the subject of talks among the agency, OMB, industry and organized labor officials. OSHA did not rel
December 30, 2025