On November 14, 2000, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published its final ergonomics standard in the Federal Register. It is codified in the Code of Federal Regulations at 29 CFR 1910.900. Acting with unprecedented speed for a standard of such magnitude, OSHA rushed to have the standard published before the lame duck Congress could attach a rider to a funding bill barring publication of the standard and before the outcome of the presidential election was certain. The new standard is extremely controversial and divisive. Despite spending years on this standard-setting process, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has still failed to draft a standard which is both sensible and not unduly burdensome. Nevertheless, the final standard is a modest improvement, at least, over the prior proposed standard.
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