April 28, 2014 at 06:45 PM
OSHA has reached a huge settlement with a major steel employer that reverts to an earlier agency stance of negotiating pre-citation penalties and also scores a big victory for OSHA by requiring a comprehensive safety program that a source familiar with the matter says could serve as a model for voluntary injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2), which OSHA has tried for years to push unsuccessfully through a rule.