The U Department of Labor has renew...

The U Department of Labor has renewed its claim that architects and engineers are enthrall to the OSHA construction industry safety regulations -- a transaction about which design professionals generally believed they had been relieved three years ago.

In 1992 OSHA's Independent Review Commission decided that an A/E firm was not "engaged in construction work" from virtue of its part as the design firm for a building draw This conclusion was then upheld on a federal court of appeals, still on the ground that the firm had no employee at the construction site at the time of