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Study: Ergonomics rule to cost $91 billion a year.(Employment Policy Foundation report on Occupational Safety and Health Administration)(Brief Article)
A new study by the Employment Policy Foundation estimates OSHA's proposed ergonomics standard will cost American businesses $91 billion a year over the next 10 years, not the $4.2 billion that the agency predicts.
The foundation based its estimate on a survey of occupational safety and health managers in Fortune 500 companies. Unlike OSHA, the foundation says it compiled empirical estimates of the resources and labor that employers will have to use to comply with the new regulation, which would require businesses to establish programs to reduce injuries caused by repetitive motion tasks.
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