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House Panel Rejects Industry Push To Block OSHA Retail Policy In Draft Bill


July 6, 2016 at 05:49 PM
A House appropriations subcommittee has declined to include binding legislative language sought by farm groups in its just-issued draft spending bill which would block OSHA from enforcing its controversial 2015 policy narrowing a long-standing exemption from its process safety management (PSM) standard for retailers, leaving industry hoping for non-binding report language opposing enforcement.

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