OSHA Wins Legal Clash Over Preemption View, Judge Tosses Appeal Against GHS Rule

OSHA has prevailed in a tort reform group's legal challenge of the preemption position OSHA took when issuing a final rule nearly two years ago to align the country's hazard communication standards with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classifying and labeling chemicals, with a federal judge tossing out an appeal that said OSHA's rule should not have included language shielding state-level failure to warn suits from the rule.