The involvement of a major hospital accrediting group in health care worker injury and illness prevention may bear out longstanding OSHA and NIOSH concerns about ergonomic hazards in hospital and nursing care settings, particularly when it comes to “safe patient handling,” sources say.
September 17, 2026
A key manufacturing group has formally asked OSHA to extend by 90 days the public comment period on its planned rule to reduce exposures to crystalline silica, arguing that the nearly 800-page proposal warrants at least that much more time for industries to review and analyze it before OSHA can reasonably move ahead.
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OSHA has told a Ventura, CA-based company to pay $1.9 million to its former chief financial officer to resolve a complaint that it illegally fired the official for bringing up concerns under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) -- again emphasizing the agency's determination to fully enforce whistleblower provisions of the financial reform law passed in the early 2000s after the Enron collapse.
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Composites manufacturers are expressing concern that OSHA has not adequately assessed the economic and technological feasibility of its proposed new crystalline silica control measures as they would apply to the industry, and are asking the agency to conduct an industry-specific study -- followed by allowing 90 days for businesses to respond to the assessment -- before moving toward a final rule.
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Business interests see little chance of OSHA promulgating a final rule tackling respirable crystalline silica exposures before the end of President Obama's second term.
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OSHA is now dealing with work force cuts of roughly 90 percent because of the lapse in appropriations for fiscal 2014 that began Tuesday (Oct. 1), with the federal government shutting down all but essential services after the failure of lawmakers to reach a short-term spending deal.
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OSHA's work force would be decimated by a federal government shutdown that could occur tonight at midnight if lawmakers don't strike agreement on a short-term spending measure, according to a Labor Department memo, with the agency's staff facing cuts of roughly 90 percent in the event of a lapse in appropriations.
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Health and safety advocates are pushing OSHA to toughen its newly proposed crystalline silica standards, even as industry complains that aspects of the planned rule are too strict.
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Worker safety advocates are concerned that it may be difficult to get worker protections addressed before the Agriculture Department implements a final poultry line rule, with the agency already rolling out a pilot program on poultry inspections that effectively increases worker line speeds.
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OSHA is ramping up both its educational campaign and enforcement initiatives in grain bin handling safety, with the agency coming out with a recent lengthy blog delving into the safety issues involved and how to prevent engulfments.
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A government shutdown likely would cause the majority of OSHA staff to be furloughed, according to a 2011 Department of Labor contingency plan that offers insight into how the agency would deal with a shutdown next Tuesday (Oct. 1) in the event Congress fails to pass a short-term funding measure.
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Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) professionals are re-emphasizing their stance that employers' so-called incentive programs that OSHA claims could discourage workers from reporting incidents do not result in such a phenomenon at VPP sites.
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A major group of occupational health and safety professionals is backing House Democratic legislation to advance safe patient handling by mandating that OSHA confront the issue, a push that comes as worker advocates ramp up demands that the Labor Department address the area, which is closely tied to controversial ergonomic policy issues.
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The full Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) will review an administrative law judge's decision that mostly favors BP in a process safety management (PSM) case with potentially far-reaching implications on whether companies can use their own internal standards to comply with agency standards.
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Several construction industry trade groups are banding together to seek key changes to OSHA's newly released proposed rule tackling crystalline silica exposures, and hope to discuss with OSHA its scientific rationale for the proposed exposure level as well as the construction-specific control measures.
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Nov. 4 in a case involving whether workers should be compensated for the amount of time spent “changing clothes,” delving into policy issues related to compensation for personal protective equipment (PPE) that have been disputed for years.
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MGM Resorts International tells Inside OSHA Online it will lodge formal objections with OSHA and ask an administrative law judge to overturn the agency's call for the company to reinstate an alleged whistleblower and to pay $325,000 for alleged Sarbanes-Oxley Act violations.
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OSHA's budget is expected to remain stable at post-sequester levels in the near term as Congress continues to debate short-term spending measures.
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OSHA has filed legal documents seeking review of an administrative law judge's decision throwing out a host of citations and fines against BP North America and an Ohio unit regarding allegations that the company violated the agency's process safety management standards.
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Industry stakeholders affected by OSHA's proposed rule tackling crystalline silica exposures will almost certainly seek an extension of the 90-day comment period set out under the rulemaking, sources tell Inside OSHA Online.
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