In this month’s CT-OSHA Safety Newsletter, the agency is pushing the ANSI Z358.1–2014 standard as their baseline EW/SS enforcement standard. The entire newsletter, which you should sign-up for, is dedicated to EW/SS’s and is full of great info. I am not a lawyer, but I do not think they can enforce a consensus standard that has not been adopted or at least “incorporated by reference.” But it is striking that two (2) state OSHA plans are now formally (CT) and officially (NV) pushing the ANSI Z358.1–2014. Leaving “compliance” out of the discussion, I am also a huge proponent of the ANSI standard. Still, I understand businesses’ hesitation to adopt it as it is a very costly investment and requires EW/SS to be managed at a level most businesses can not even imagine. One item I found interesting in the CT-OSHA newsletter was their official position on “bottled eye wash and personal wash units.”