Farm Groups Hail Ruling Vacating OSHA's Retail Policy

Agricultural retailers, farm groups and one of their congressional supporters are welcoming a recent appeals court ruling striking down OSHA's July 2015 policy subjecting more retailers to the agency's facility safety rules, arguing the decision will hold OSHA to its authorizing statute, and that the policy was an inappropriate response to a facility disaster. "Given the significant economic costs and absence of any safety benefit, the court made the correct decision," the Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA), the lead petitioner in...