Safety Group Suggests OSHA Consider Noise Control NEP To Bolster Tougher Policy

A key safety organization, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), is calling on OSHA to develop a National Emphasis Program (NEP) on noise controls, saying the move would also allow the agency to collect data on workplace hearing loss to bolster support for greater reliance on engineering and administrative controls. The group is also suggesting NIOSH help collect noise exposure data. OSHA recently backed away from a planned reinterpretation of noise control policy that would have resulted in greater reliance on engineering and noise controls after employers cried foul. ASSE, in a le