Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthlate (DEPH), bisphenol A (BPA), and solvents come under public scrutiny
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1074-9098
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✦ Synopsis
In response to the Court vacating the Cooperative Compliance Program (CCP), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plans to issue a new program that will avoid the issues raised by the Court. The CCP was designed to allow targeted companies to avoid compliance inspections if they implemented a set of safety programs. The Court stated that this was coercive in that the company would be inspected if they did not agree to cooperate. The CCP was a reasonable program, according to an OSHA spokesperson, in that the companies were already targeted for inspection.
Within 10 days of the Court decision, OSHA launched a new site-specific plan that will target 2200 high-hazard workplaces for unannounced comprehensive safety and health inspections.
Implementation of the new plan was timed to continue an interim inspection targeting plan that OSHA put in place while the CCP was being reviewed. The interim plan, which began in April 1998, ran through this June when inspections of all the 3300 selected target work sites will likely be complete.
The new Site Specific Targeting (SST) Plan, Directive 99-3, CPL 2, will initially cover approximately 2200 manufacturing and service industry work sites with lost workday injury and illness (LWII) rates above 16.0 per 100 full-time workers, compared with the national 1997 average of 3.3.
Neal Langerman compiles this column, which features items of interest to laboratory, pilot plant, and production area chemical safety. He is the owner of Advanced
Chemical Safety, a consulting firm specializing in the prevention of injury, illness, and environmental insult. Contributions are encouraged and can be sent to his attention at neakkhemicalsafety.com or (858) 874-8239 (fax).