Federal OSHA Rejects Sanctions for Arizona Job Safety Program

The federal government will allow Arizona to continue to regulate workplace safety and health, OSHA has decided.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced in a Federal Register notice Tuesday that it would no longer seek to take over all or portions of the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s duties.

The change came after Arizona officials during the summer and fall adopted several rules and guidance documents that OSHA said in April the state needed to approve.

Among the rules were setting the same maximum and minimum fine levels as OSHA and establishing stricter limits on workers’ exposure ...