Oct. 14, 2014 | WORKERS’ SAFETY | The country’s top workplace safety official said Thursday that the regulatory system protecting workers from chemical exposure is “broken,” and called for a new dialogue with employers and worker safety experts about how it might be improved… The government tries to protect workers in manufacturing plants and other workplaces through so-called permissible exposure limits, which cap the allowable concentration of airborne hazards. Yet the vast majority of these limits haven’t been updated in the more four decades that OSHA has existed. Full story here.