IAQ—Washington State Takes a Giant Step Back

SAN FRANCISCO - As Cal-OSHA continues to train compliance people in how to respond to indoor air quality (IAQ) complaints, while Assembly Member John Burton asks the Cal-OSH Standards Board to act, Washington State has pulled in its horns.In 1988, when Fed-OSHA chief Joe Dear ran WISHA, the state's OSHA plan, a governmental interagency task force began gathering available information on many types of contaminants (volatile organic chemicals, bioaerosols, combustion products, dusts and ETS). In 1991, an