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September 11, 2001 and the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill lead to stronger protections against the exposure to hexavalent chromium and hazards associated with cleanup efffforts.8
As recently as 2020, OSHA has been working on issuing new rules associated with real-world events and tragedies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. The agency will also move in 2022 to issue a new standard on heat stress for workers as a result of the record-busting heat waves that have rolled over the country in the last five years.
Smoothing the Bumps in the Road
While OSHA looks to celebrate 50-plus years of workplace health and safety standards, there is still much to be done. Despite the fact that OSHA continues to create new standards, there have been many calls in the industry to look back to some of the earliest-made standards to evolve them as work, technology and facilities have advanced over the past half- century. Many argue that it is easy to get confused or lost in many of the standards’ vague and often outdated information, however revisions could take years to be proposed, agreed upon and published.
The agency has issued many letters of interpretation and proposed revisions for
standards over the years, something that will most likely not stop in the coming years as new hazards are presented, technology advances and the work that employees do progresses with time.
The occupational health and safety industry doesn’t look at all how it did in the 1800’s and with your help, it will continue to move forward with a brighter outlook for worker health and safety.
Sydny Shepard is the Editor of Occupational Health & Safety.
REFERENCE
1. https://www.msha.gov/about/history 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
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3. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th- century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire
4. https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/ history/dolchp01
5. https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/ history/dolchp03
6. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/ history-of-workplace-safety-in-the-united- states-1880-1970-2/
7. https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/ history/osha
8. https://www.osha.gov/osha50
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