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20 Jul 2022, 8:39 am
A new report by Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, argues that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is failing to protect workers from the dangers of unsafe heat. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 10:00 pm
The problem for OSHA is that the Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) has not been amended to allow for the higher penalties. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 2:00 am
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, employers have struggled to understand the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) position on cloth face coverings and surgical masks, specifically whether the agency requires or recommends their use and whether they constitute personal protective equipment (PPE). [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 12:17 pm
In what OSHA called an administrative precedent-setting decision, an administrative law judge determined that the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission may have authority under the OSH Act to order abatement measures against Central Transport LLC that extend beyond the specific violations that OSHA identified in its citations. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 4:57 pm
In staying the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) business vaccine mandate, the court reasoned that OSHA can “regulate occupational dangers” but lacks “the power to regulate public health more broadly. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 6:15 am
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 5:59 am
For this reason, officials with the Southeast regional offices of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are working to increase enforcement efforts. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 7:04 am
Sec’y of Labor, a case that asks the court to decide how far the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can go when directing a hospital to put in place measures to protect nurses and other staff members from patient attacks. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 11:41 am
On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued the Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (“Executive Order”) directing, among other things, that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issue, within two weeks, revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, consider establishing emergency temporary standards for workplace COVID-19 protections,… [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 11:41 am
On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued the Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (“Executive Order”) directing, among other things, that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issue, within two weeks, revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, consider establishing emergency temporary standards for workplace COVID-19 protections,… [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 11:41 am
On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued the Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (“Executive Order”) directing, among other things, that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issue, within two weeks, revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, consider establishing emergency temporary standards for workplace COVID-19 protections,… [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 2:39 pm
Virginia imposed these standards because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), the federal agency responsible for workplace safety, has thus far refused to make its own extensive recommendations mandatory. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 6:19 am
Conn As we reported in our blog post in November of 2010, hotel housekeepers across the nation launched a concerted program of filing complaints with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) alleging a range of ergonomic and chemical exposure injuries sustained on the job. [read post]
21 May 2012, 8:15 am
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced in a May 17, 2012 notice published in the Federal Register that it will establish a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (“Committee”) in an effort “to improve the fairness, efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of OSHA’s whistleblower protection activities. [read post]
23 Oct 2010, 2:46 pm
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Alpharetta's AP Specialty Metals for safety violations, including failure to install machine guards to prevent employees from being caught up in machinery. [read post]
17 May 2011, 11:55 am
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated regulations protecting shipyard workers from work-related injuries. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 11:59 am
OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has a comprehensive web page devoted to COVID-19, which includes identification of applicable regulations, enforcement memoranda, recording and reporting requirements, links to various pandemic-related “tools” and “resources,” as well as specific workplace guidance by industry. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 10:04 am
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a memorandum outlining new standards for general industry and maritime requiring employers to limit work exposures to respirable crystalline silica and to take other steps to protect workers. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 7:00 am
The briefing will cover actions that employers should take now to prepare their workplaces and workforce for unexpected visits from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), review employers’ and employees’ rights during an OSHA inspection, and discuss inspection strategies to ensure the best possible outcome from an inspection. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 6:15 am
Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered Rowan Business Forms, a Salisbury, North Carolina-based commercial printing company, to reinstate and pay over $83,000 in back wages and compensatory damages to a former truck driver after OSHA found reasonable cause to believe that Rowan violated the whistleblower provision of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA). [read post]
