Policy

A proposed update to the NIOSH policy for identifying occupational carcinogens and recommending exposure limits will extend the use of outdated hazard assessment practices. As ACMA will argue in its comments...

OSHA’s proposed rule to control workplace exposure to respirable crystalline silica makes excessive demands on small companies. This was the message delivered to OSHA by the leadership of ACMA’s Government...

The scientific effort to describe the potential for styrene exposure to cause cancer in humans may be entering its last phase. Some scientists think it’s already over. Enough already The styrene...

Users of styrene and certain other chemicals will be targeted for special OSHA inspections under a local emphasis program in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. According to a November 12 OSHA release, the...

OSHA has recently cited composites manufacturers for failing to employ rigorous housekeeping practices, for the use of unapproved electrical equipment and for failing to locate outdoors dust handing equipment...

OSHA has proposed to require companies to report workplace illness and injury data to the agency electronically, and to make establishment-specific data available on a publicly accessible website. The...