A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of occupational respiratory health is arguing that improved monitoring and surveillance of workplace exposures to risk factors for asthma could reduce worker deaths, underscoring a recent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) call for greater OSHA surveillance of workplace hazards.
September 17, 2026
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is criticizing President Donald Trump's rollback of certain OSHA worker safety and other labor protections during his first year in office, teeing up potential issues Democrats plan to raise as the 2018 midterm elections loom.
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As companies prepare to comply with a looming Feb. 1 deadline for internally posting their annual work-related injury and illness summaries, an attorney is urging them to delay early compliance with a July 1 deadline for electronically submitting the reports to OSHA as the administration is expected to overhaul the requirements before then.
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A Houston-based drilling company with a lengthy record of OSHA violations and dubbed as one of the “worst safety violators in the nation” in a 2008 Senate report, could be the first to be subject to an OSHA enforcement program aimed at severe violators in the oil and gas industry after a fatal rig explosion in Oklahoma, Jordan Barab, a former Obama OSHA official says.
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Despite high hopes that the administration would follow through on President Donald Trump's promises to cut so many regulations “it will make your head spin,” industry attorneys are are now tempering their expectations on the extent of any deregulatory efforts at OSHA, saying the impact may be minimal.
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Environmentalists have quietly sued to block the Trump administration's framework for reviewing new chemicals under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), clearing the way for a legal test on whether the administration can proceed with its plan to drop the use of enforcement orders as an interim step in regulating the substances.
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Labor groups are criticizing a Trump administration plan to allow faster line speeds at swine processing plants, charging it will increase workplace risks and underscoring their concerns that officials may soon move to finalize a similar plan for poultry processors.
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Public Citizen is suing the Labor Department and OSHA for denying Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking injury and illness records submitted under the agency's May 2016 record-keeping and reporting rule update, a suit that could undercut Trump administration plans to withhold public release of the data that was intended to be published under the rule.
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A former Obama-era OSHA official is warning of increased risks to workers, uneven safety enforcement by states as well as several other risks that could result from the looming shutdown of the federal government, which is expected to furlough many OSHA employees until funding is restored.
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A chemical industry coalition is urging EPA to forgo regulating new chemicals' risks to workers and use new authority under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to instead inform OSHA enforcement, an approach environmentalists say is “patently illegal” and would undermine worker protections due to OSHA's limited reach and resources.
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Industry attorneys say that there is a “heightened risk” the Trump administration will bring “high level criminal prosecutions” targeting worker safety violations under Obama-era practices that rely on stricter environmental laws, despite officials' emphasis on compliance assistance.
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Attorneys are urging industry groups to more closely track and engage with environmentalists' litigation under the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), saying initial suits could set important precedents that will determine how the new law is ultimately implemented.
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The Abrasive Blasting Manufacturers Alliance (ABMA), a group seeking to scale back the Obama OSHA's strict beryllium standard, is pushing to subject competitors whose products rely on non-slag alternatives to the rule's protections, releasing a study that claims that crushed glass abrasives that competitors use contain beryllium and are thus subject to the standard.
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer's (D-NY) recent call for OSHA to establish a system to notify first responders when a local company is cited for serious violations involving flammable materials is drawing criticism from both labor and industry officials who are raising doubts about its effectiveness in increasing safety.
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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has postponed until next week a scheduled Jan. 11 vote to consider several Labor Department nominees, including Scott Mugno, the Trump administration's nominee to lead OSHA.
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The number of OSHA inspectors has declined by 4 percent since President Donald Trump has taken office, according to a NBC News Report, raising concerns from a former Obama official and labor advocates that declining agency resources are harming workplace safety and fear the trend will continue despite the administration ending a hiring freeze on new inspectors.
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is urging OSHA to “maximize” and expand its Obama-era injury reporting requirements to collect more information on injured employees and develop a publicly available and searchable injury and illness database, raising a potential hurdle to Trump administration efforts to roll back the rule.
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) is urging Scott Mugno, the Trump administration's pick to lead OSHA, and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, to establish a system to notify local governments and first responders when a local company is cited for serious OSHA violations, a call that could set the bar for Mugno's pending confirmation.
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The Labor Department (DOL) is renewing claims that the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act grants OSHA power to cite so-called “controlling employers” for violations affecting another company's workers, even as it rejects industry claims that it should not be entitled to deference when interpreting vague statutory provisions.
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The Trump administration is touting an increase in OSHA inspections in fiscal year 2017, the first uptick since 2012, despite a former Obama OSHA official's claims that declining agency resources are harming workplace safety, a trend the official expects to continue despite the Trump Labor Department's (DOL) lifting a freeze on hiring inspectors.
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