The chemical industry is praising what it says are recent moves by EPA to consult OSHA and other work-safety agencies to bolster the TSCA office’s approach to occupational exposure and risk analysis, while pursuing its own efforts to harmonize approaches to that discipline used by the toxics program, industrial hygienists and occupational regulators.
EPA’s draft finding that formaldehyde exposures can lead to leukemia drew a range of reactions from other federal entities that reviewed a pre-release draft with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) leading praise of the cancer analysis while others warned that they see evidence of that link as more tenuous than the agency is claiming.
EPA’s just-released draft risk assessment of formaldehyde links the chemical to myeloid leukemia based on a controversial study of workplace exposures, but does not use that finding in its cancer risk estimate due to modeling data uncertainty, resulting in a risk value that is an order of magnitude less strict than in 2010 and very close to its last final review in 1991.
OSHA is formally launching its National Emphasis Program (NEP) for heat danger, directing its enforcement office to “proactively initiate inspections” and outreach targeted at workplaces in more than 70 industries deemed “high-risk” while expanding inspections of all industries to cover heat-related hazards and safeguards.
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocacy is touting its efforts to limit the scope of OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare as the most significant victory in its fiscal year 2021 agenda, saying its single-sector focus led to almost 98 percent of the office’s regulatory cost savings for the year.
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocacy is touting its efforts to limit the scope of OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare as the most significant victory in its fiscal year 2021 agenda, saying its single-sector focus led to almost 98 percent of the office’s regulatory cost savings for the year.
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Advocacy is touting its efforts to limit the scope of OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare as the most significant victory in its fiscal year 2021 agenda, saying its single-sector focus led to almost 98 percent of the office’s regulatory cost savings for the year.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is floating new revisions to its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) that would drop several requirements and instead require employers to follow frequently updated guidance from the state’s health department, though employers’ attorneys say some provisions of the new rule are still too stringent.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is floating new revisions to its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) that would drop several requirements and instead require employers to follow frequently updated guidance from the state’s health department, though employers’ attorneys say some provisions of the new rule are still too stringent.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is floating new revisions to its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) that would drop several requirements and instead require employers to follow frequently updated guidance from the state’s health department, though employers’ attorneys say some provisions of the new rule are still too stringent.