OSHA Conducts Hearings on Means of Egress Standards
August 1997
The Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently
held hearings on its proposal to rewrite into plain English,
Part 1910 Subpart E regulations on “Means of Egress.
CABO, as well as all other witnesses who testified at the
hearing, objected to rewriting a 27 year-old standard. Instead,
CABO recommended that a more efficient way of producing regulations
for exit routes would be to adopt the means of egress provisions
in the latest edition of any of the three model building codes
which are already written in clear, concise, enforceable language.
CABO reminded OSHA that in 1988 Congress passed Public Law
100-678 which calls for Federal agencies to comply with one of
the three nationally recognized model building codes to the maximum
extent feasible when constructing or altering a federal building.
