There will be a slight delay before the Obama administration issues a slew of new OSHA regulations.

That’s because the administration is following a tradition started by Ronald Reagan in 1981: It has ordered all work halted on federal regulations left unfinished by the Bush White House until it can be reviewed by Obama’s team.

The White House will perform a legal and policy review of each pending regulation.

Among proposed rules in the OSHA pipeline:

• exposure to crystalline silica
• exposure to beryllium
• a review of the methylene chloride standard
• review of the bloodborne pathogen standard
• proposed confined spaces in construction standard
• revision of the electrical power transmission and distribution standard, and
• proposed revision of the cranes and derricks standard.

For more information on the order to halt work on federal regulations, click here.

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