March 17, 2015 at 04:53 PM
OSHA is offering some enforcement leeway for companies that show good-faith efforts to meet an upcoming June 1 deadline for updating safety data sheets (SDS) and labeling mixtures of chemicals with known hazards under a 2012 worker right-to-know standard, though some in industry believe the agency's new compliance directive demonstrates that industry should have challenged the rule as infeasible when it came out three years ago.