January 21, 2014 at 09:23 PM
OSHA reportedly is working on an internal directive to deal with an apparent gap in the agency's new hazard communication rule that could let employers dispute whether a chemical is proven to cause cancer, even if the chemical appears as either a known or possible carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) or the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a source familiar with the issue tells Inside OSHA Online.