SACRAMENTO - Following an adverse ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, OSHA indicated that it will consider initiating rulemaking to resolve issues raised in the Union Tank case. While California long ago established that the employer must pay for PPE, OSHA has not clearly enunciated what is meant by "provide" in 1910.132(a).In Sec. of Labor v. Union Tank Car Co., OSHRC Docket No. 96-0563, a decision dated October 16, 1997, the commissioners vacated an Administrative Law J
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