Employer-focused attorneys say they expect California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to take additional and more aggressive enforcement actions in the coming year, including a potential new focus on criminal prosecutions, as a result of the agency recently filling long-vacant inspector and other positions.
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling that presidents can remove at will members of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lays the groundwork for a potential similar ruling regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), experts say.
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling that presidents can remove at will members of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lays the groundwork for a potential similar ruling regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), experts say.
OSHA is confirming in a new Federal Register notice that Tennessee OSHA (TOSHA) has assumed authority over worker safety and health of non-federal employees performing work at former Energy Department (DOE) facilities in the state, adding new details to a pair of OSHA-DOE agreements on transferring such authority.
A petition to California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board seeking a ban on artificial stone slabs containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica to prevent more cases of the deadly lung disease silicosis is sparking new debate over whether a ban is appropriate or if state officials should substantially ramp up enforcement of worker-safety standards.
A petition to California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board seeking a ban on artificial stone slabs containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica to prevent more cases of the deadly lung disease silicosis is sparking new debate over whether a ban is appropriate or if state officials should substantially ramp up enforcement of worker-safety standards.
Two recent press releases highlight the Trump OSHA’s focus on publicizing preventable harms to workers, noting citations and fines to companies that repeatedly, and in one case willfully, failed to protect workers, even as some observers expect such releases, viewed by critics as “regulation by shaming,” to become even less common.
A federal district court judge is ordering the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to produce within 10 days an administrative record explaining its decision earlier this year to essentially shut down a key federal workplace-safety agency, saying HHS has to date produced nothing that explains its actions.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has amended regulations governing its operations, organization and management in order to improve their function, better reflect CSB’s mission and clarify procedures involving public meetings, according to a recent Federal Register notice.
A Louisiana-based oil and gas drilling specialty contractor is asking the D.C. Circuit to vacate an OSHA citation stemming from a 2022 accident where a pipe ruptured at a gas well in South Texas, arguing that an accident, by itself, is not enough to establish a violation of the General Duty Clause.