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NRA Wins Fight On OSHA Issue.(National Restaurant Association wins in injury reporting...

In a significant victory for the National Restaurant Association, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) decision has spared the restaurant industry an estimated $35 million-plus in compliance costs. The OSHA regulation would have required restaurants to maintain a comprehensive record of on-the-job injuries and then report them to OSHA every month.

The NRA has been fighting to maintain the restaurant exemption that OSHA proposed to eliminate. Ending the exemption would have required restaurants to spend possibly as much as 20 hours a month filling out

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