Worker Health Group Urges OMB To Release OSHA's Draft Silica Proposal

A major workplace health group, in a rare move, took its case directly to the White House in urging the Office of Management and Budget to release OSHA's long-awaited regulatory plan to tackle crystalline silica exposures. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) says the public needs an opportunity to view the proposal, and expressed worry that OMB might cave to industry's call to remove the construction sector from the rule. An AIHA official told Inside OSHA Online that the organization has almost never approached OMB directly to ask for release of a proposed rule, at least in rece