May 18, 2016 at 06:46 PM
OSHA's recent deal that ended petrochemical industry litigation over its controversial enforcement policy that requires companies to use defined “engineering practices” to comply with the agency's process safety management (PSM) standards may aid ongoing talks aimed at resolving a similar dispute over OSHA's policy for determining when company's concentrations of certain chemicals in mixtures subject them to PSM requirements, an industry lawyer says.