Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 safety standards, formaldehyde, regulatory reform, health, osha, occupational safety and health, workplace compliance, respiratory protection

🛡️Proposed Rule on OSHA's Formaldehyde Standard and Respiratory Protection

This proposed rule revises OSHA's Formaldehyde standard to eliminate duplicative respiratory protection requirements and better align this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Health 3 Jan 2025 compliance, epa, tsca, formaldehyde, manufacturing, health risk, chemical regulation

⚠️EPA Final Risk Evaluation for Formaldehyde

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the availability of the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. The purpose of risk evaluations under TSCA is to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, without consideration of costs or non-risk factors, including unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations identified as relevant to the risk evaluation by EPA, under the conditions of use. The Agency used the best available science to prepare this final risk evaluation and has determined, based on the weight of scientific evidence, that formaldehyde presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health. Under TSCA, EPA must initiate risk management actions to address the unreasonable risk.

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