Amid rising illness and deaths, California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board has adopted an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for crystalline silica exposure in “engineered stone fabrication shops,” rejecting calls by industry representatives to consider amendments that would ease some of the rule’s stringent new worker-safety requirements.
Amid rising illness and deaths, California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board has adopted an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for crystalline silica exposure in “engineered stone fabrication shops,” rejecting calls by industry representatives to consider amendments that would ease some of the rule’s stringent new worker-safety requirements.
The Biden administration is launching a new government-wide initiative to strengthen cost-benefit analyses that OSHA and other agencies use to justify key rules, signaling that officials are planning to collaborate with private sector researchers to help identify data gaps and obstacles to improving quantification and monetization of costs and benefits.
EPA has released a draft TSCA evaluation of the flame retardant tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), finding that nine of 20 uses the agency considered contribute to unreasonable risk from the “whole chemical” and floating a workplace limit for airborne exposures -- measures that if finalized could support broad regulation under the toxics law.
EPA has released a draft TSCA evaluation of the flame retardant tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), finding that nine of 20 uses the agency considered contribute to unreasonable risk from the “whole chemical” and floating a workplace limit for airborne exposures -- measures that if finalized could support broad regulation under the toxics law.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has published a pair of reports in the space of a week that call for OSHA to craft new safety standards, with one recommending the agency enact a nationwide safety rule for workers who deal with liquid nitrogen and another broadening its past calls for a rulemaking on combustible dust.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has published a pair of reports in the space of a week that call for OSHA to craft new safety standards, with one recommending the agency enact a nationwide safety rule for workers who deal with liquid nitrogen and another broadening its past calls for a rulemaking on combustible dust.
The head of California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is touting a new staff recruitment initiative by an outside firm as a fresh effort by the agency to help fill the estimated 35 percent of positions at the agency that are considered vacant, while acknowledging that the lack of employees is hurting several Cal/OSHA programs -- including enforcement of worker-safety rules.
OSHA’s latest regulatory agenda says it intends to advance several long-promised rules in either the final days of 2023 or early 2024, including updated safety standards for powered industrial trucks and elevated walking surfaces, even higher-profile rulemakings such as those for heat danger, workplace violence and infectious diseases remain on uncertain timelines.
OSHA’s latest regulatory agenda says it intends to advance several long-promised rules in either the final days of 2023 or early 2024, including updated safety standards for powered industrial trucks and elevated walking surfaces, even higher-profile rulemakings such as those for heat danger, workplace violence and infectious diseases remain on uncertain timelines.