OSHA Consults With Cell Phone Tower Industry On Potential For New Safety Regs

OSHA standards officials recently met with communication tower industry representatives regarding details of the agency's plan to devise new regulations on safety in construction and maintenance of cellular towers that are rapidly sprouting up around the country to keep pace with mobile networks, but at the same time the industry is crafting its own consensus standard that is expected to come out long before OSHA even approaches a final rule, sources close to the issue tell Inside OSHA Online ...