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14 Sep 2021, 10:52 am
The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently updated its Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace (“Guidance”), to bring it in line with the most recent recommendations published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) on July 27, 2021, which were updated in view of the Delta variant. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 11:23 pm
Asbestos is now well recognized as a health threat, and its usage is strictly controlled by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 2:05 pm
On Sept. 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he had asked the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to promulgate an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that will require employers with more than 100 employees to take steps to ensure that their employees are either vaccinated or show a negative test result for COVID-19 each week. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 1:33 pm
As part of a series of actions aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19, including the highly contagious Delta variant, President Biden recently announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming… [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 9:21 am
Carbon monoxide 7.Materials storage 8.Manual lifting/handling 9.Hazard communication 10.Charging stations (fire and explosion) 11.Poor ergonomics (musculoskeletal disorders) 12.Inadequate fire safety provisions 13.Lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) 14.Heat stressLegislative ActivityLegislation was recently passed in California [AB701] to require large warehouse employers to: -Disclose quotas and pace-of-work standards to workers -Prohibit employers from counting the… [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 8:27 am
High Injury Rate According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), 1 in 10 construction workers sustain work-related injuries each year. [read post]
12 Sep 2021, 4:58 pm
Employers that employ more than 100 employees, are in the health care industry or that are federal government contractors or subcontractors should begin preparing to comply with impending Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) emergency rules that will require employers to enforce vaccine mandates for their employees and possibly a paid time off mandate for workers taking off to get vaccinated. [read post]
12 Sep 2021, 3:10 am
To meet this goal, Biden asked the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue a rule requiring employers with over 100 employees to mandate vaccines or to require weekly testing. [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 3:15 pm
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA has broad authority to set workplace safety standards ("occupational safety and health standards"), including standards aimed at reducing the threat of disease. [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 1:20 pm
Soon, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will issue a rule pursuant to an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 2:18 pm
The Administration plans to impose this requirement by using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) power, under the 1970 OSHA Act, to impose an "Emergency Test Standard" in cases where the agency determines "that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 1:25 pm
The Administration has directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop and issue a new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to implement this requirement. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 1:04 pm
The mandate would be issued through the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 12:26 pm
Biden’s plan, announced September 9, is a six-pronged approach that includes an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to be developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) instructing employers with at least 100 workers to require them to be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 11:57 am
” President Biden announced the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will require all employers with at least 100 employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or subjected to weekly COVID-19 testing before coming on-site to work. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 11:49 am
These measures direct the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) to set forth specific guidance, which we are still awaiting. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 11:44 am
Department of Labor through its Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is working to create an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that their workers are fully vaccinated or to require any remaining unvaccinated workers to produce a negative COVID-19 test result on a weekly basis in order to enter a worksite. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 11:19 am
Reportedly, before the trial, the plaintiff moved in limine for the court to admit Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and publications into evidence. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 10:52 am
The White House is relying on the regulatory authority of the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency dating back to 1971, and in particular its seldom-used emergency powers. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 10:37 am
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is in the process of developing a rule to require employers of 100 or more employees to either: (1) require an employee be fully vaccinated or (2) require an employee who remains unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. [read post]
