GAO Researchers Meet With Public Interest Group To Study OSHA Impact, Source Says

Congressional investigators met recently with a public interest group that closely follows occupational safety and health issues to gather input on OSHA's effectiveness, with the group suggesting legislative and administrative reforms are necessary to fix what it views as a broken regulatory system, a source with the group told Inside OSHA Online. The group pointed investigators to three specific regulatory hurdles: 1. The decades-old Supreme Court benzene decision that requires OSHA show its standards address a “significant” risk; 2. progressively greater review requirements imposed by regula