OSHA Signals Wider Concern As Worker Advocates Seek Physician Hours Rule

OSHA signaled it has health and safety concerns relating to long work hours across many industry sectors and stopped short of committing to draft new regulations sought by worker advocacy groups limiting the hours resident physicians can work in a single week and in a single shift. As OSHA faces regulatory pressure, the professional medical organization that oversees all resident physician training is touting its newly updated voluntary standards addressing work hours. Three worker advocacy groups recently joined forces to petition OSHA to issue a host of new regulations on the issue and to ta