OSHA is juggling numerous technical issues related to its proposed rulemaking to protect workers from combustible dust hazards, sources say, not least of which are cost issues and alternative control measures. Meanwhile, business interests are complaining about what they consider a closed process under which OSHA appears to be gathering information to support the rulemaking. The agency is still early in the regulatory stages on combustible dust, but has already gone through the process of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) in which it gathered information from the public, as well
December 30, 2025