CSB Presses OSHA On Combustible Dust, Calling For Reg Proposal Within One Year

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is intensifying pressure on OSHA to take urgent action cracking down on combustible dust hazards, calling on the agency to publish a proposed rule tackling the issue within one year and add industries that generate metal dust to the targets of its National Emphasis Program (NEP) on the enforcement side. The OSHA recommendations lead a host of measures CSB wants various organizations, from the local to federal levels, to take following a probe into several incidents last year at a steel plant in Tennessee, two of which were fatal. CSB issued its case study T