A key Senate Democrat on worker protection issues is lauding her home state of Washington for enacting a law requiring a process of hazard abatement during appeal of occupational safety and health violations, and calling for a similar law to be enacted on the federal level. The state's OSHA chief, who had urged the legislature to pass the measure, told Inside OSHA Online that the law fixes a decades-old gap in federal worker safety protections. Oregon is the only other state to have taken action at the state level as similar reforms floated as part of federal OSHA reform legislation continue t
December 30, 2025