The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) gearing up to peer-review the Defense Department’s (DOD) revised approach to developing a standard for workplace exposures to trichloroethylene (TCE), marking the latest step in DOD’s long-running struggle to reconcile EPA and OSHA’s drastically different findings on the solvent.
Speakers at EPA’s June 16 environmental justice (EJ) consultation for impending rules on trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE or perc) urged the agency to focus on impacts to workers, and heard praise from industry on what one official said is a new promise from officials to seek briefings on industrial hygiene practices.
Employer and industry groups are splitting over the latest revised California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), after the agency relaxed masking and distancing requirements for vaccinated workers -- a move some firms are welcoming while others say the new rule is still too strict and should be repealed.
Employer and industry groups are splitting over the latest revised California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), after the agency relaxed masking and distancing requirements for vaccinated workers -- a move some firms are welcoming while others say the new rule is still too strict and should be repealed.
Employer and industry groups are splitting over the latest revised California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), after the agency relaxed masking and distancing requirements for vaccinated workers -- a move some firms are welcoming while others say the new rule is still too strict and should be repealed.
OSHA will publish its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) in the June 21 Federal Register, making the rule effective for the healthcare sector upon publication, meaning the 14-day compliance deadline for most of its provisions will arrive on July 5.
OSHA will publish its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) in the June 21 Federal Register, making the rule effective for the healthcare sector upon publication, meaning the 14-day compliance deadline for most of its provisions will arrive on July 5.
OSHA will publish its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) in the June 21 Federal Register, making the rule effective for the healthcare sector upon publication, meaning the 14-day compliance deadline for most of its provisions will arrive on July 5.
EPA’s top waste official is promising that the agency’s plan to revise the Trump-era rule setting safety mandates for chemical facilities will require that industry provides the “maximum protection possible” and will make environmental justice a key focus, bolstering environmental groups that have pushed for such approaches.
EPA’s top waste official is promising that the agency’s plan to revise the Trump-era rule setting safety mandates for chemical facilities will require that industry provides the “maximum protection possible” and will make environmental justice a key focus, bolstering environmental groups that have pushed for such approaches.