Commissioner Cynthia Attwood will leave the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) at the end of April, leaving the commission without the numbers needed to form a quorum. Partners Ed Foulke and Travis Vance spoke with Bloomberg Law on the impact this may have on case reviews. Ed says the loss of quorum doesn’t just mean a possible slowdown in safety case reviews – employer could also see higher costs for appealing citations and a worse chance of prevailing. Travis added, “OSHRC was giving us a lot of interesting decisions in regards to repeat citations and Lock Out/Tag Out – now that will come to a screeching halt.”
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