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OSHA Decides Against Revoking Obama-Era Beryllium Worker Protections


September 30, 2019 at 03:40 PM
OSHA has issued a final rule reversing course on a prior proposal that would have revoked Obama-era occupational exposure standards for construction and shipyards, saying that undoing the standards would be at odds with the agency’s statutory mandate to protect workers from proven significant health risks of exposure to beryllium.

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