A bipartisan amendment to the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have reauthorized the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lapsed Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard (CFATS) has failed to reach the House floor, cutting off another avenue to revive the program almost a year after it expired.
September 16, 2026
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has begun formal interagency review of OSHA’s long-awaited plan to set a nationwide heat illness and injury prevention standard, after years of development and repeated calls from worker-safety advocates for officials to quickly complete the rulemaking as global temperatures have spiked.
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President Joe Biden is nominating a longtime labor and trade official to one of the two vacant seats on the Occupational Safety and Health Association Review Commission (OSHRC), after the Senate’s inaction on a prior nominee has left the panel with just a single active member, and thus unable to decide cases, for over a year.
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Members of the House Homeland Security Committee used a June 4 hearing on OSHA’s proposed updates to health and safety standards for “emergency responders” to raise concerns over their compliance costs for local fire departments and whether the new provisions would truly bolster protections for firefighters in particular.
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Employer groups are lining up behind House Republicans’ Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would scrap OSHA’s controversial worker walkaround rule, renewing their arguments that it oversteps the agency’s statutory authority and threatens workplace security, although the measure is all but certain to fail since it is subject to a presidential veto.
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A slew of prominent associations representing employers and industry sectors has sued OSHA over its controversial “third-party” worker walkaround rule, incorporating arguments voiced by a range of trade groups and attorneys that the rule exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority, violates several federal laws and poses a threat to workplace security.
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Industry groups and attorneys say OSHA’s newly finalized revisions to the hazard communication standard (HCS) still pose serious “hurdles” for chemical manufacturers and users, even after the agency rewrote a controversial requirement for safety labels to address dangers posed by downstream uses of toxic or hazardous substances.
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OSHA has released its final rule updating the hazard communication standard (HCS) that governs safety labels for toxic, flammable and otherwise dangerous chemicals, including a redone version of its requirement to address hazards posed by chemicals’ downstream uses after employers argued that the original language would impose massive new burdens on them.
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OSHA used a recent meeting with its advisory panel on construction issues to preview the “structure” of its impending heat illness and injury prevention standard, highlighting how it plans to identify heat hazards in the rule, set triggers for action, and require emergency response planning and heat condition monitoring, among other elements.
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The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is calling on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to expand its call for data on firefighters’ exposures to wildfire smoke, pointing to research needs on the effects of those exposures, while urging both NIOSH and OSHA to craft clearer guidance for employers.
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