NRC Finds OSHA Lead PEL Inadequate To Protect Firing Range Personnel

A prestigious panel of independent research experts has concluded that OSHA's standard for limiting airborne lead exposures falls short of adequate protection for personnel at firing ranges, in a finding that could have wider implications for the agency's lead standard. The National Research Council of the National Academies carried out a comprehensive study of the issue at the request of the Defense Department. The study comes as OSHA explores a variety of options for updating its decades' old permissible exposure limits. The Defense Department specifically asked the research council to deter