OSHA is seeking to release by the end of this month long-awaited final rules on both electronic recordkeeping mandates and COVID-19 infection controls in healthcare facilities, alongside several proposed policies, while delaying other rulemakings from their previous timelines -- some by over a year, according to its latest Unified Agenda of rulemaking actions.
Trade association officials, attorneys and individual business owners are warning EPA of “massive” complications from its proposal to phase out methylene chloride or mandate strict worker protections for its use, saying that many firms or entire sectors see no ready substitute for the solvent, and others have no way to separate uses subject to the rule from exempt ones.
Trade association officials, attorneys and individual business owners are warning EPA of “massive” complications from its proposal to phase out methylene chloride or mandate strict worker protections for its use, saying that many firms or entire sectors see no ready substitute for the solvent, and others have no way to separate uses subject to the rule from exempt ones.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is questioning the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, including a long-discussed overhaul of its governing rules, as they weigh reauthorizing CFATS before it expires on July 27.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is questioning the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, including a long-discussed overhaul of its governing rules, as they weigh reauthorizing CFATS before it expires on July 27.
South Carolina is defending its latest challenge to OSHA’s mandate for states to match annual increases to federal minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties, arguing courts should not force it to “bet the farm” by provoking an enforcement action before suing over the policy, and that time spent on a prior case should not count against the statute of limitations.
South Carolina is defending its latest challenge to OSHA’s mandate for states to match annual increases to federal minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties, arguing courts should not force it to “bet the farm” by provoking an enforcement action before suing over the policy, and that time spent on a prior case should not count against the statute of limitations.
South Carolina is defending its latest challenge to OSHA’s mandate for states to match annual increases to federal minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties, arguing courts should not force it to “bet the farm” by provoking an enforcement action before suing over the policy, and that time spent on a prior case should not count against the statute of limitations.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has issued a new rule governing its internal operations that curtails the power an individual board member can exercise as the only Senate-confirmed member of the panel, in an apparent effort to avoid a repeat of the period in 2020-21 when a single appointee operated as a “quorum of one.”
EPA is proposing new workplace exposure limits for the solvent perchloroethylene (PCE) in several sectors that would be over 100 times stricter than OSHA’s current standard, but would allow employers in some sectors to continue using it indefinitely, including those who use the chemical to manufacture alternatives to climate-warming refrigerants.