CLASP recently submitted comments in opposition to the Department of Labor’s proposed rule, “Occupational Safety and Health Standards; Interpretation of the General Duty Clause: Limitation for Inherently Risky Professional Activities,” which would modify or remove more than 25 “obsolete” employment regulations, particularly the effort to further dismantle OSHA enforcement power by limiting their use of the General Duty Clause. This rule proposes a change that would restrict OSHA’s ability to cite employers under the General Duty Clause for workplace hazards deemed “inherent and inseparable” from certain professions in high-risk sectors. The General Duty Clause must be understood as a foundational part of our worker safety system. It provides workers with a baseline level of protection against preventable hazards when OSHA standards do not dictate specific and necessary safety protocols. Limiting this standard will allow employers to overlook known hazards in the workplace without requiring them to take reasonable steps to prevent or regulate the environment. The protection and enforcement of this clause safeguards hundreds of thousands of people, and its weakening is a clear threat to the state of occupational safety.