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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently reissued its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program (NEP) Instruction in order to increase enforcement activities and focus on specific industry groups that have experienced frequent or catastrophic combustible dust incidents.

Comprehensive guidelines for livestock treatment and transport developed by specific industry groups are becoming more common (e.g., species-specific guides for the humane handling of swine, and dairy and beef cattle have recently been published by their respective producer groups in Alberta, and other provinces' groups are looking at doing the same).

On the subject of organizations most valuable to small businesses, respondents said specific industry groups or associations.

Many have developed expertise with specific industry groups or types of clients where self-insurance is prevalent--oil and gas, public entity and hospitality--and most have access to insurance and reinsurance capabilities.

Severino, who participated in February's ASEAN investment promotion mission to Japan, said this month's mission plans a roundtable meeting on the automotive sector, along with a more general seminar and meetings with specific industry groups and individual corporations.

APICS has divided these lists into eight specific industry groups that cover such areas as process industries, constraint management, and remanufacturing.

The IRS hopes organizing the LMSB into five specific industry groups will allow the agency to build greater expertise and improve service.

These reports can be compared with similar customers within GAB Robins' claims database--or with data from specific industry groups.

Podolin also urged the House Ways and Means Committee to consider providing a different amortization period for intangible assets of businesses in specific industry groups, consistent with the depreciation rules of tangible assets, and said professional sports franchises and related assets should not be excluded from the definition of a section 197 intangible.