On July 22, OSHA concluded the public comment period on their proposed Emergency Response Standard. This proposed standard would impose numerous requirements that would be infeasible for many volunteer fire departments to comply with and could cause these departments to shutdown.

Don't worry if you did not submit a public comment on how damaging this standard would be before the July deadline! You can still make your voice heard by using this Action Alert to tell your Member of Congress and Senators about OSHA's proposed Emergency Response standard and how it will harm volunteer fire departments.

Additional information on OSHA's proposed standard and how it would be harmful to volunteer fire departments can be found at the NVFC's OSHA landing page here: https://www.nvfc.org/osha-standard/.