ARA Signs Letter to Congress to Resolve OSHA’s “Retail Facility” Interpretation
Mar 23 2016
ARA signs a letter to Congress requesting for support to resolve the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) arbitrary and abrupt change in its Process Safety Management (PSM) “retail facility” interpretation. Until OSHA issued its PSM “retail exemption” enforcement memo on July 22, 2015, farm supply retailers were always exempt from the PSM regulations. The PSM standards are intended for chemical manufacturers, not agricultural retailers and other retail businesses that sell directly to end-users. OSHA's memo is contrary to over two decades of its own enforcement.