OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ISSUES PROPOSED RULE: ETHYLENE OXIDE

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a proposed rule called: Ethylene Oxide.

The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on July 22 by David Keeling, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.

Summary: OSHA is providing an additional comment period to allow interested people to comment on OSHA's proposal to revise the Ethylene Oxide standard. Following consideration of the rulemaking by OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH), OSHA is re-opening the record for this rulemaking to provide an additional 30 days for public comment.

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