OSHA Chemical Labeling Rule Appears To Avoid Court Challenges

OSHA’s updated hazard communication standard (HCS) appears set to reach a July 19 deadline for legal challenges with no known industry suits that might seek to reverse its newly tightened chemical-labeling mandates -- a move that one industry attorney says appears to be driven by manufacturers’ focus on litigating EPA’s TSCA rules instead. “I believe industry will regret not challenging HCS 2024 once its ramifications become clear,” Lawrence Halprin, a partner with the firm Keller and Heckman, told Inside OSHA...