OSHA Readies Data Call To Inform Updated Mechanical Press Standard

White House officials have completed their review of OSHA’s long-delayed request for information designed to shape its first-ever update to the safety standard for mechanical power presses -- a rule that dates to 1971, and which the agency sought unsuccessfully to rework during the George W. Bush administration. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cleared the information request as “consistent with change” on July 20, almost three months after OSHA sent the action for review on April...