So the National Coalition on Ergonomics, an alliance of associations and businesses representing employers, filed a lawsuit to stop implementation of the rule, which forces companies to revise the way employees perform physically stressful jobs involving excessive amounts of repetitive motion. Rather, he is concerned that OSHA doesn't have the scientific backing to go forward with this rule. Despite such dissatisfaction, OSHA has made significant changes in an effort to accommodate businesses, if not specifically small businesses. In the final rule, OSHA devised a new two-part test. Only jobs that fail the screen must be corrected.
Companies then have two options.
Only certain jobs are affected by this option, and such changes as raising or lowering a chair or providing a platform for employees to use to prevent overhead reaching mitigate rather than eliminate the hazard. These are the same six steps OSHA set out in the proposed rule, but within the six, it's made some changes. For example, it changed the language to clarify that although employees should be involved in developing your ergonomics program, employee involvement isn't practical or justified in every instance. In the weeks prior to the publication of OSHA's final rule, the House and Senate passed an amendment to a Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill that would prevent OSHA from moving forward. But President Clinton threatened to veto that bill because of the ergonomics provision.