AIHA predicts mold abatement, safe patient handling will be upcoming state-level regulatory priorities
While federal regulatory action get the lion’s share of the attention, EHS professionals should pay even more attention to what happens at the state level, according to American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) government guru, Aaron K. Trippler, for a variety of reasons.
“With the federal government tied up in other matters – the budget and debt ceiling, for example – and a broken rulemaking process, it takes months, if not years, for legislation and regulations to be enacted at the federal level,” said Trippler, who, as AIHA Government Affairs director is the organization’s chief liaison with Congress and federal agencies. “That’s why it’s important to devote resources to monitor state legislation and engage in rulemaking efforts of interest to the OEHS profession at the state level. And nowadays, it appears that legislation passed at the state level eventually comes up at the federal level.”