JLC • NEW ENGLAND EDITION • JUNE 1995 JLC • NEW ENGLAND EDITION • JUNE 1995
EIGHT-
PENNY
NEWS VOLUME 13 • NUMBER 9 JUNE
1995
When the Clinton administration
took office in 1993,
the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
(OSHA) got right down to
business with an ambitious
agenda of new regulations
and revamped enforcement
schemes. But since the 1994
Congressional elections swept
the Democratic majority out
of Congress, OSHA has been
on the defensive. In fact, the
changing tide in Washington
threatens to wash away many
of OSHA's latest creations.
Tough new rules. In the
two years following Clinton's
inauguration, OSHA produced
extensive new rules that
affect builders and remodelers:
a revised fall protection standard
(Eight-Penny News, 1/95),
a toughened rule for limiting
asbestos exposure