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OSHA Pushes 'Inherently Safer' Technology As Part Of Interagency Safety Report


June 10, 2014 at 03:11 PM
OSHA as part of a federal interagency working group says it would consider an array of measures to strengthen the safety and security of industrial plants in the wake of recent disasters, including pushing facilities to use inherently safer technologies (IST), though agencies continue to oppose a requirement sought by activists for the Environmental Protection Agency to mandate specific IST.

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