According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 5,190 fatal occupational injuries in the United States as recently as 2021. Sadly, millions more were injured or developed illnesses on the job that same year., , , , To protect workers, regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cover a wide range of potential hazards. These hazards can imperil worker health and safety, and by law, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workp.
No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
Earlier this year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a revised Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program (NEP). The purpose of the revised NEP was to continue OSHA inspections of facilities that generate or handle combustible dusts likely to cause fire, flash fire, deflagration and explosion hazards., , , , OSHA warns that any combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, and u.