OSHA Issues Workplace Noise Proposal
Late last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a proposal to overturn established policy on reducing workplace noise. Currently, employers are permitted to provide personal ear protection to employees to reduce potentially harmful workplace noise. The new OSHA proposal would require businesses to consider using administrative and or engineering controls to reduce employee exposure to workplace noise.
These new efforts may include limiting employee time in certain workplace areas, or requiring expensive noise dampening equipment to be installed. Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) have authored a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, requesting that OSHA review the necessity of this proposal. Specifically, they have asked OSHA to provide quantitative data affirming the need for a policy change, any economic analysis and research completed on the proposal prior to issuance and the type and level of stakeholder input received prior to publication.
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