January 19, 2011 at 04:04 PM
OSHA chief David Michaels told an agency advisory panel Wednesday morning that OSHA will scrap plans to reinterpret its noise control policy, responding to concerns from the Senate task force on manufacturing and employers that the new policy would be costly to industry. The move came a day after the White House issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to root out federal regulations that are overly burdensome to industry. The agency's controversial noise control policy reinterpretation -- which would have made it easier for OSHA to require engineering and administrative controls -