(OSHA: Washington D.C.) -- The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced the outcome of its lead-in-construction standard lookback review in a recent Federal Register.

“Employers and employees in the construction industry stand to benefit from the results of this lookback review,” says Edwin G. Foulke Jr., assistant secretary of labor for OSHA. “Certain construction jobs still experience high levels of airborne lead and the retention of this Standard is necessary to ensure employees are protected from high lead exposure.”

OSHA’s directorate of evaluation and analysis conducts retrospective reviews of final standards and regulations in accordance with the regulatory review provisions of section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and section 5 of Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review (58 FR 51735, 51739, October 4, 1993). These retrospective reviews are more commonly referred to as “lookback,” or Section 610, reviews.

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