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21 Aug 2014, 11:13 pm
Workers who experience potentially life-threatening exposure to a pesticide would be guaranteed treatment within four to five minutes, not 30 minutes.Those are just a few examples of how advocates say Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards would better protect pesticide applicators than changes EPA is now proposing to its worker rules. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 1:36 pm
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are legally responsible for providing a safe and healthy work environment for their employees. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 5:39 pm
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a public hearing on the agency's proposed rule to amend its existing exposure limits for occupational exposure in general industry to beryllium and beryllium compounds. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 7:11 am
On March 3, 210, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it ordered e-Smart Technologies, Inc. to reinstate a whistleblower and awarded the plaintiff over $600,000 in back pay and compensatory damages. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 5:41 pm
On Friday, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration [OSHA] announced a policy minimizing occupational exposure to COVID-19 exposures and disease in the workplace. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 11:20 am
On March 22, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it had partially reopened the comment period for its permanent standard to protect health care and health care support workers from exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 1:00 pm
Increasingly, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)—the federal watchdog responsible for ensuring safe and healthful working conditions—has been “raising the heat” on employers when it comes to investigating heat hazards in the workplace during this era of volatile climate change. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:29 am
The same day the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study finding that it takes an average of nearly 8 years for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to finalize safety standards, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing to address why this process takes so long. [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 8:26 pm
Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s record of adopting and enforcing regulations to address emerging or long-unaddressed hazards. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 6:01 am
But David Michaels, Ph.D., M.P.H., who leads the Occupational Safety and Health Administration under the Obama administration, says that workplace inequality is more than just wages. [read post]
1 May 2015, 2:00 pm
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule to increase protections for construction workers in confined spaces. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 4:08 am
The Enforcement Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment in General Industry was recently released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 6:02 pm
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an Illinois grain bin accident that killed two teenagers and injured a third was preventable. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 8:14 am
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding workplace safety and addressing topics related to COVID-19, including whether workers should wear a cloth face covering while at work per the CDC’s recommendations. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 1:25 am
Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued 16 serious and one other-than-serious safety and health violations to G.D. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 12:46 pm
” Every year, the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) publishes a list of the past year’s most frequently cited workplace safety standards. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 12:43 pm
On Workers Memorial Day and the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on pending legislation, the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), H.R. 2067. [read post]
10 May 2019, 1:32 pm
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating two separate explosions that occurred at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) corn processing facilities in Illinois and Iowa on January 5. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 4:31 am
Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued penalties in 2013 for exposing workers to excavation hazards at a Des Plaines worksite. [read post]
26 May 2020, 7:40 pm
One tool available to workers: complaints made to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. [read post]
