August 15, 2017
One of President Trump’s promises during his election campaign was to undo federal regulations that had been put in place over the previous eight years. In the first six months of 2017, the new administration has taken several steps to make good on this promise.
On the worker safety front, we’ve seen a variety of delays, rollbacks, and other moves to rescind new OSHA rules, some of which were years or even decades in the making.
- In March, the effective date for OSHA’s new beryllium rule was delayed for the second time,1 and in June the agency issued a new proposal to revoke certain provisions of the rule for the construction and shipyard industries.
- In April, OSHA delayed enforcement of the silica rule for the construction industry.
- Just a few weeks ago, OSHA proposed a further delay of the compliance date for its new electronic recordkeeping rule.
- And on July 20, OSHA released a spring regulatory agenda that did not include the combustible dust standard that’s been in the works since 2009.
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