{"id":2576,"date":"2017-12-22T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:05:33","slug":"court-upholds-osha-silica-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/12\/22\/court-upholds-osha-silica-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Silica Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2577\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"silica osha\" width=\"341\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/37632115170_9a82a3ad3b_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/>There is no better holiday gift than the gift of life and that is what the\u00a0DC Appeals Court gave thousands of workers today with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/desktop\/document\/North_Americas_Building_Trade_v_OSHA_et_al_Docket_No_1601105_DC_C\/15?1513965411\">decision<\/a> upholding OSHA&#8217;s silica standard and telling OSHA to make it stronger.\u00a0\u201cWe reject all of industry\u2019s challenges,&#8221; the court stated.<\/p>\n<p>The court not only\u00a0rejected five challenges to the rule brought by industry groups led by the US Chamber of Commerce, but sent the rule back to OSHA because the agency did not offer good reasons for leaving out\u00a0 \u201cmedical removal protection\u201d that would have allowed doctors to remove sick workers from exposure to silica under certain conditions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe hold that\u00a0OSHA\u00a0was arbitrary and capricious in declining to require MRP for some period when a medical professional recommends permanent removal, when a medical professional recommends temporary removal to alleviate COPD symptoms, and when a medical professional recommends temporary removal pending a specialist\u2019s determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court didn&#8217;t order OSHA to implement MRP, but if they are not going to implement it, they need to have a better excuse for not including it.<\/p>\n<p>Several other OSHA standards, such as the lead, cadmium, benzene and beryllium standards, also include medical removal protection.<\/p>\n<p>The silica standard, issued by OSHA in 2016 is <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/09\/21\/osha-delays-full-silica-enforcement-one-month\/\">currently being enforced<\/a>, after several delays. The rule was intended to protect more than two million U.S. workers currently exposed to silica on the job.\u00a0 OSHA estimated that the standard would\u00a0save\u00a0over 600 lives and prevent more than 900 new cases of silicosis each year.\u00a0 \u00a0A hearing before the court was held last September and OSHA actively defended the standard in court.<\/p>\n<h2>OSHA&#8217;s Silica Findings Upheld<\/h2>\n<p>OSHA has three major obligations when issuing a health standard: The agency has to establish that the hazard presents a &#8220;significant risk&#8221; to employees and that the new standard will reduce that risk. The law also requires that OSHA establish that the new standard is technologically and economically feasible.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld OSHA&#8217;s significant risk findings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Industry challenges OSHA\u2019s significant risk findings in three ways. First, Industry attacks two parts of OSHA\u2019s risk assessment methodology. Second, it challenges OSHA\u2019s findings on each of the four individual health risks. Finally, Industry challenges OSHA\u2019s decision to include the brick industry within the scope of the Rule. We reject each challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The court rejected the industry&#8217;s argument that OSHA had not established that the standard was technologically feasible:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Where OSHA has demonstrated technological feasibility for the typical firm in most operations and has supported that finding with substantial evidence, it has satisfied its burden and we must defer to its conclusions<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">OSHA considered and responded to each of these [industry] objections, making \u201creasonable predictions based on \u2018credible sources of information.\u2019\u201d \u00a0Once \u00a0again, Industry\u2019s insistence that compliance is infeasible for some firms in some operations some of the time cannot upend our deference to OSHA\u2019s well-supported finding that compliance is feasible for the typical firm in most operations.<\/p>\n<p>The also court rejected the industry&#8217;s challenge that OSHA had not determined that the standard was economically feasible:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">OSHA\u2019s cost estimates in each of these industries are inevitably imperfect due to the limitations of available data and the uncertainties inherent in predicting future costs. But this is why \u201chard and precise estimates of costs\u201d are not required. OSHA\u2019s only obligation is to confirm, on the basis of substantial evidence, that its rule does not \u201cthreaten massive dislocation to, or imperil the existence of, the industry.\u201dhere can be little doubt that OSHA has done so here.<\/p>\n<p>More later, but all-in-all very good news. And there&#8217;s so little of that lately.<\/p>\n<p>So, during this holiday season, let&#8217;s all give thanks that sometimes truth and justice prevail, government workers, and most of all that thousands of construction, foundry and other workers can look forward to spending a long and healthy retirement with their grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no better holiday gift than the gift of life and that is what the\u00a0DC Appeals Court gave thousands of workers today with their decision upholding OSHA&#8217;s silica standard and telling OSHA to make it stronger.\u00a0\u201cWe reject all of industry\u2019s challenges,&#8221; the court stated. The court not only\u00a0rejected five challenges to the rule brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osha","category-silica"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Silica Standard - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0DC Court of Appeals today upheld OSHA&#039;s silica standard. 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