December 17, 2010 at 01:52 AM
OSHA anticipates that its planned final rule restoring the column for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to injury recordkeeping forms will soon be approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a top agency official recently told construction industry and union stakeholders. The contentious proposal -- which industry has strongly pushed back against, citing legal issues in the rulemaking as well as paperwork and cost burdens on employers -- has been stuck in an extended OMB review process since this fall. “We expect that one to be out shortly,” Dorothy Dougherty, director of OSHA's Dire