WASHINGTON-The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has extended the deadline from July 10 until Oct. 1 for repair facilities to comply with new workplace practice standards relating to the servicing of asbestos brakes. The Bethesda, Md.-based Automotive Parts & Accessories Association reported that the extension will give shops time to comply with previously publicized standards regulating exposure of service shop workers to the asbestos contained in some brake linings.
After a number of groups, associations and companies filed a lawsuit to reverse an earlier OSHA ruling banning the use of aerosol brake cleaners, the agency recently issued a correction to its final rule, granting full use of aerosols.
That correction outlines several workplace practices which must be undertaken by service facilities in order to use aerosols.