Combustible Dust Rule Progress Stalling
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration may have thrown in the towel on issuing a general industry regulation for combustible dust before the end of the Obama Administration in January 2017. The clearest sign: A schedule for releasing the proposed combustible dust rule has been wiped from the latest regulatory agenda, released last fall. The agenda commits the agency only to putting together a small business forum, referred to as a SBREFA panel, in August 2016.