As we approach the mid-term elections in November there is a significant push to try and paint President Trump as some kind of worker and community killer. These accounts are being pushed by major media outlets and even more, sadly some of the Occupational Publications are following suit. Just tonight, BLR posted this article “House Bill would restore retail facilities definition in PSM standard” and it is full of propaganda! The article references a 2015 guidance document from OSHA on how they were going to define “retail facilities”. There is one serious problem with referring to that 2015 letter… all the courts threw it out and told OSHA that they would have to undertake “rulemaking” if they wanted to revise the PSM standard and their “retail” definition that had been in place since the 1990’s. And the article failed to mention OSHA’s most recent letter (April 2018) on this matter in which OSHA clarifies their position on inspecting and citing “retail facilities”.