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OSHA committee on temp workers schedules monthly meetings

August 19, 2015

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold monthly meetings of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health's Temporary Workers Work Group in Washington, DC. The monthly meetings are scheduled for the following dates in 2015: Aug. 24, Sept. 21, Oct. 16 and Nov. 20.

The workgroup will meet to continue discussion of workplace safety and health issues regarding temporary workers and develop recommendations for NACOSH’s consideration. This includes developing recommended best practice language for protecting temporary workers as part of employers' injury and illness prevention programs.

NACOSH advises, consults with and makes recommendations to the secretaries of labor and health and human services on matters relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Act including regulatory, research, compliance assistance and enforcement issues.

More information is available here.