Industries tell OSHA officials that regulating dust can be complex, expensive | The Augusta Chronicle
The 5 Points of discussion for the OSHA Combustible Dust Stakeholder Meeting February 17, 2010 Atlanta, Georgia: 1. NFPA Standards - Benefits and challenges. Should they be used as OSHA Standards or compliance alternatives? 2. Scope - What facilites and combustible dusts should be covered or not, and on what technical basis? 3. Economic Impact - Costs and benefits of proposed rules and regulatory approaches? 4. Hazard Mitigation - Where and how engineering and administrative controls are applied, methods of analysis? 5. Additional topics - questions, comments, topics. 12 Lessons learned from the OSHA Combustible Dust Stakeholder Meeting February 17, 2010 1:00pm Session: 1. The lack of participation by local and regional companies affected by the new OSHA Combustible Dust Standard, and other industry professionals is perplexing. 2. There is no deadline for creating the new OSHA Combustible Dust Standard. 3. Generally defining Combustible Dust industry wide is...