Rules To Protect Workers From Chemicals, Falls Top OSHA's Agenda

OSHA is planning to advance several dozen rules and proposed rules in the coming year, ranging from measures to protect workers from slips, trips and falls, industrial facility accidents and exposure to numerous toxic chemicals, according to a federal rulemaking docket. In the Spring 2016 update to the Unified Agenda (UA), OSHA says it plans to complete in August its decades-long effort to issue a final rule preventing slips, trips and falls, a leading cause of worker injuries and deaths...