OSHA Settles Chimney Sweepers’ Long-Running Suit Over 2016 ‘Slip’ Rule

OSHA has reached a settlement with the National Chimney Sweep Guild (NCSG) to resolve a long-stalled challenge to the agency’s 2016 rulemaking that overhauled fall-protection standards to limit workers' slips, trips and falls, setting alternative compliance approaches and limited waivers for the sector.