House and Senate negotiators reached a deal Thursday (Dec. 15) on Labor Department spending for the rest of fiscal 2012 that kills OSHA's plans to add a column for musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) to OSHA recordkeeping logs by blocking funds for the effort. But they scrapped policy riders that would have similarly put a stop to the agency's controversial injury and illness prevention program (I2P2) rule, as well as its new fall protection policy as it relates to residential reroofing and roof-repair activities. The MSD provision -- contained in the compromise funding measure for Labor, Health a
December 29, 2025