Draft an OSHA Letter of Interpretation request in minutes
Turn a chat session into an OSHA Letter of Interpretation (LOI) request. Cairn fills in the background, question, and position with citations from your conversation, then exports a print-ready PDF on company letterhead.
What it does
A structured editor
Each section is its own field: background, question, position. You edit the wording; Cairn keeps the format OSHA expects.
Citations stay attached
Cairn attaches every citation from your chat to the draft. Toggle each one to include or exclude it.
Print-ready PDF
Cairn renders a US Letter, accessible PDF (PDF/UA) on the server, embeds your logo, and hashes the export for your audit log.
What it replaces
Three weeks of legal back-and-forth to draft a single LOI request.
A complete draft in 30 minutes, generated from the chat where the question came up.
Free-text Word documents that lose citations and arrive at OSHA without authority references.
Structured fields with citations attached to the position, exported as a PDF that mirrors OSHA's own letter format.
Chasing legal for the latest letterhead template every time.
Org-wide letterhead saved once, applied to every export.
Common questions
- How do I request an OSHA Letter of Interpretation?
Submit a written request to the OSHA Directorate responsible for the standard, stating the background, the specific question, and your own position with citations to the relevant 29 CFR provisions. Cairn structures each of these fields for you from a compliance chat and exports a print-ready request on your letterhead.
- What is an OSHA Letter of Interpretation (LOI)?
A Letter of Interpretation is OSHA's written explanation of how a standard applies to a specific set of facts. It is the agency's official position on the question you raised and can be cited like the standard itself.
- How long does an OSHA interpretation letter take?
OSHA does not publish a fixed turnaround, and complex questions can take several months. A clearly structured request, with the background, question, and position cited, gives reviewers less to decode and reduces follow-up correspondence.