Toxics Reform Seen As Potential Legislative Remedy To Outdated OSHA Exposure Limits

Worker health experts view legislative efforts to reform a decades-old federal toxics law the Environmental Protection Agency uses to screen substances as one potential way to tackle the problem of outdated OSHA permissible exposure limits (PELs), by including protections for workers as a subset of so-called “vulnerable” populations who are highly exposed or sensitive to risky chemicals.