OSHA is offering some enforcement leeway for companies that show good-faith efforts to meet an upcoming June 1 deadline for updating safety data sheets (SDS) and labeling mixtures of chemicals with known hazards under a 2012 worker right-to-know standard, though some in industry believe the agency's new compliance directive demonstrates that industry should have challenged the rule as infeasible when it came out three years ago.
December 27, 2025