Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, lead safety, respirators

🛡️OSHA Proposes Revisions to Lead Respiratory Protection Standards

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Lead standards and better aligns the standards with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Regulatory Compliance, Health and Safety 17 Jan 2025 compliance, hud, housing regulations, blood lead level, environmental health, lead safety

🏠HUD Lowers Blood Lead Level Threshold for Housing Compliance

This notice announces HUD's modifying its elevated blood lead level (EBLL) threshold under its Lead Safe Housing Rule from to 5 to 3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood ([micro]g/dL) for a child under the age of 6, consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's current blood lead reference value of 3.5 [micro]g/dL. This notice also describes the required compliance dates for implementing this modification, which depend on whether the applicable State, State-level jurisdiction, territory, or local jurisdiction has already incorporated a blood lead level action threshold equal to or lower than the CDC's current blood lead reference value.

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