The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has given verbal assurance to NASSCO that it will continue to consider thernsewer rehabilitation work typically performed by its members as 'maintenance' rather than 'construction' as had been proposed in a rule change to OSHA's confined space standard, reports Irv Gemora, executive director of NASSCO.rnNASSCO opposed inclusion of rehabilitation in the 'construction' category because it would substantially increase the costs to companies engaged in rehabilitation projects.
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