Groups representing sheriffs and other first responders are again urging lawmakers to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, warning that allowing it to lapse has increased terrorism risks and limited collaboration between local emergency services.
OSHA is clashing with the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) after it found the agency needs to do more to mitigate high injury and illness rates among warehouse workers, refusing to directly respond to recommendations and slamming OIG’s methodologies for the audit instead.
Major unions are asking EPA to reconsider its proposed TSCA rule that would allow employers to continue active uses of carbon tetrachloride (CTC) with stricter worker protections, arguing both that the agency has overlooked some applications of the solvent entirely and that it should ban those where it “lacks evidence” firms can meet a strict exposure limit.
Major unions are asking EPA to reconsider its proposed TSCA rule that would allow employers to continue active uses of carbon tetrachloride (CTC) with stricter worker protections, arguing both that the agency has overlooked some applications of the solvent entirely and that it should ban those where it “lacks evidence” firms can meet a strict exposure limit.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has vetoed a bill that would have required household domestic service employers to comply with all California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) rules beginning in 2025, citing potentially exorbitant costs and the general unfairness of subjecting households and families to regulations intended for conventional businesses.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has vetoed a bill that would have required household domestic service employers to comply with all California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) rules beginning in 2025, citing potentially exorbitant costs and the general unfairness of subjecting households and families to regulations intended for conventional businesses.
OSHA is launching a new initiative to bolster enforcement and compliance with its rules governing respirable crystalline silica (RCS) to protect workers in the engineered stone fabrication and installation industries by prioritizing federal inspections of worksites where workers are exposed to high levels of silica dust.
OSHA chief Doug Parker used a Sept. 27 House hearing to warn lawmakers against an increasingly-likely government shutdown, arguing that a lapse in appropriations will hamstring the agency’s enforcement work including a new silica initiative, while also seeking to defend its regulatory agenda against attacks by Republican panel members.
OSHA chief Doug Parker used a Sept. 27 House hearing to warn lawmakers against an increasingly-likely government shutdown, arguing that a lapse in appropriations will hamstring the agency’s enforcement work including a new silica initiative, while also seeking to defend its regulatory agenda against attacks by Republican panel members.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) officials have released a revised emergency temporary standard (ETS) for crystalline silica exposure in “engineered stone fabrication shops,” aiming to approve the rule in December amid what they say is a “crisis” in which a growing number of workers are developing advanced silicosis, a serious lung disease.