New OSHA Whistleblower Advisory Panel To Include Industry, Advocacy, Public Appointees

OSHA says its new whistleblower advisory panel of outside stakeholders will include an even ratio of management and organized labor interests, with additional representatives from the public and state plan states -- along with several nonvoting members from government agencies with jurisdiction over statutes with whistleblower provisions. The agency is calling for nominations to the panel, announced last month as its latest step in efforts to revamp the beleaguered whistleblower protection program (WPP) housed within OSHA. A whistleblower protection advocate says it is too early to know whethe