On July 20, 2001, OSHA announced the start of a National Emphasis Program to reduce occupational exposures to lead. According to OSHA, lead exposure is a leading cause of workplace illness and can ...

A review by OSHA of its Lead in Construction Standard (29 CFR 1926.62) indicates the standard has helped reduce blood lead levels among construction workers, thereby reducing the incidence of ...

Federal labor officials are looking at revising workplace lead exposure standards they say are outdated. The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration published an advance ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that the lead-in-construction standard that it implemented in 1993 has reduced construction workers’ blood-lead levels without causing economic ...