Employer Attorneys See Vulnerabilities In Proposed OSHA Heat Standard

Two attorneys are urging employers to use comments on OSHA’s proposed heat illness and prevention standard to target several provisions that they said appear at odds with either “evidence” on safe practices or the limits of the OSH Act itself -- and which could be the basis of legal challenges if the agency does not rework them for the final version. For instance, at one point in a July 24 webinar on the heat rule hosted by law firm Keller...