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Ethylene Oxide
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025.
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What the agency says
This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Ethylene Oxide standard and better aligns this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-11638
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; request for comments
- Agency
- Labor Department; Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Dates
- Comments and other information, including requests for a hearing, must be received on or before September 2, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. OSHA-2025-0018
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1218-AD63
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910; 29 CFR 1915; 29 CFR 1917; 29 CFR 1918; 29 CFR 1926
- Topics
- Health; Occupational safety and health
- Pages
- 5
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