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Industry Expects OSHA Scrapped 'Lockout' Update Given Lack Of Hearing


September 12, 2018 at 06:12 PM
A plastics industry attorney expects that the Trump administration will not advance an Obama-era plan to expand when OSHA's safety standard applies to power equipment that is shut off during repair work, noting that OSHA did not hold a required hearing on the change, and that the agency may instead seek changes to ease the burdens of the existing rule.

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