August 7, 2012 at 02:45 PM
The Labor Department spending measure that recently cleared the House Appropriations Committee contains a cluster of policy riders that would stall several OSHA efforts: an injury and illness prevention program (I2P2) rule still in the early stages of development; enforcement of an OSHA standard related to worker proximity to machinery in grain storage operations; and the applicability to residential roofers of its recent controversial tightening of fall protection requirements. Worker safety advocates on Capitol Hill decried the lawmaker efforts to use the spending measure to block the polici