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Workplace violence, LOTO, silica on OSHA’s spring 2019 regulatory agenda

May 31, 2019

Via: ISHN

Workplace Violence in Health Care: After having published an RFI in 2016 that solicited input on issues and prevention strategies to consider in developing a standard, OSHA now intends to initiate a Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) panel to address the issue of preventing workplace violence specifically in healthcare and social assistance industries. Congress, however, introduced a bill earlier this year that would fast-track the regulatory process by directing OSHA to adopt and implement a final rule without following the traditional rulemaking procedures.

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