OSHA recently published its Spring 2015 Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda. The agenda contains more than two-dozen standards initiatives in various phases of development. Since it takes years for the agency to move a standard through all the phases and approval processes, the reg agenda is always something of a wish list. Most items will never see publication as a final rule in the Federal Register.
But it’s interesting to note the standards that are either in the pre-rule stage, or the long-term issues stage. Here you find some of the potentially most impactful (and costly and controversial) rules OSHA could ever promulgate.