Is OSHA really barred from enacting a new ergonomics rule?
March 12, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: ergonomics, Injuries, New rules and regulations, OSHA news, Special Report
When Congress eliminated OSHA’s ergonomics rule in 2001, it was also generally understood that the agency could not issue a new rule that was “substantially the same” as the old one. But what if a new ergonomics rule wasn’t substantially the same?
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Tags: Congressional Review Act, cost-benefit analysis, new ergonomics standard, University of Pennsylvania Law School
