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Warm Trade pressRegulator Regulation & Standards High OSHA & EPA From the July 16, 2026 brief

OSHA's "training before exposure" requirement catches restorers

Trade press broke down OSHA's requirement that workers be trained before exposure, not after assignment, a compliance detail that trips restoration shops that staff up fast for CAT work.

FORTrain before you deploy and you protect your people, your carrier relationships, and your ability to take the big jobs.
AGAINST"Train before exposure" is easy to say and brutal on a shop scrambling bodies for a CAT event on 12 hours' notice.
Consensus vs. contrarianContrarian: your CAT surge plan is a compliance document whether you wrote it that way or not, the shops that pre-train a bench win the work the non-compliant ones can't legally take.

Sources R&R, www.randrmagonline.com/articles/92080-what-r… ()

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