State Public Health Officials Lay Out Guidelines For Referring Workplace Issues To OSHA

State public health epidemiologists have developed a framework for state health officials to start referring potential workplace safety and health hazards to federal OSHA, delving into numerous legal and protocol issues that states might have to navigate if forming such agreements with the agency. The document, obtained by Inside OSHA Online, envisions either memoranda of understanding (MOU) between states and the feds, or less formal arrangements -- and points out the pros and cons of either approach. The guidelines emerged from a months-long effort to create blueprints -- actively sought by