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November 7, 2024

OSHA Expands Poultry Inspections To Cover Entire Meat Industry

October 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
OSHA has replaced its long-standing enforcement guidance for poultry facilities with one that covers all animal slaughtering and meat processing sites -- a move it says will tighten its oversight of the sector in order to better target disproportionately high injury and illness rates for workers. The Oct. 15 guidance supersedes an Obama-era guidance that pertained only to poultry slaughtering and processing under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) category 311615. Regulators will now apply the guidance to the animal...

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