Industry Reps, DOSH Spar on Need for Sensitizing Substances Revisions

SACRAMENTO -- Representatives of manufacturing companies and other businesses question the need for proposed notations in the state's airborne contaminants standard alerting employers of the need for taking precautions against so-called sensitizing substances in the workplace.California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), which wants to include the notations in General Industry Safety Orders 5155, counters that the notations would not add any new requirements for employers, but woul