May 25, 2012 at 12:27 AM
A former top OSHA regulator has started floating legal arguments for a potential path forward for OSHA to explore a new ergonomics regulation that he argues could potentially overcome the OSHA rule's biggest obstacle to date -- the veto by Congress that killed the agency's last attempt to tackle the issue in 2001. The former official calls for OSHA to target a new rule “squarely” on workplace ergo hazards and recast design and exposure-reduction requirements as recommended controls. Adam Finkel, who was at OSHA during the agency's development of its ill-fated ergonomics rule in the late 1990s,