The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-tration (OSHA) first announced in 1997 that it was developing a rule requiring employers to pay for all Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for their employees.  In that announcement, the federal agency assured private industry that it would not be required to provide any additional PPE for their employees than was not already required under existing law.  Eleven years later, after finally promulgating an employer-sponsored PPE rule—CFR 29 1910.132(h) “OSHA Standard for Employer Payment of Personal Protective Equipment”—on Nov. 15, 2007, the agency appears to have lived up to its decade-old promise, and then some ...