I often review the OSHRC decisions to learn better the “legal” side of OSHA compliance and most of the time I find that the Review Commission is pretty much a straight shooter when it comes to applying OSHA standards. But there are times when I close my computer as if I just saw a ghost after reading some of their rationales! Sometimes it is OSHA’s fault for poorly explaining the intent of their standard, and sometimes the commission gets it wrong for legal reasons and sometimes I don’t know what the heck happened. In this case, I truly believe a judge who most likely has never been involved in evaluating or isolating a PRCS made a horrible decision based on parsing the definition of “isolation” in 1910.146…
