House members used recent hearings on COVID-19 issues to raise competing claims on OSHA’s impending vaccination standard, with Republicans arguing that the rule could exacerbate supply chain shortages and other economic fallout from the pandemic while Democrats said the agency must take a strict approach to protect workers.
Just-released legislative text that House Democratic leaders say implements a deal between President Joe Biden and Senate moderates for a $1.75 trillion social spending package maintains the previously announced proposal to raise statutory penalties for OSH Act violations by a factor of 10, along with $707 million in funding for OSHA itself.
Just-released legislative text that House Democratic leaders say implements a deal between President Joe Biden and Senate moderates for a $1.75 trillion social spending package maintains the previously announced proposal to raise statutory penalties for OSH Act violations by a factor of 10, along with $707 million in funding for OSHA itself.
Just-released legislative text that House Democratic leaders say implements a deal between President Joe Biden and Senate moderates for a $1.75 trillion social spending package maintains the previously announced proposal to raise statutory penalties for OSH Act violations by a factor of 10, along with $707 million in funding for OSHA itself.
OSHA will reconstitute its Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH), six years after the body last met, as part of a wide-ranging executive order from President Joe Biden that seeks to reconstitute over 30 executive-level advisory panels that the Trump administration scrapped in 2017.
OSHA’s long-awaited call for input on a federal heat danger standard details dozens of subjects where the agency is seeking data and recommendations from stakeholders, including lessons learned from existing state and employer heat programs, metrics for identifying dangerous temperatures, and equity issues related to the hazard.
OSHA’s long-awaited call for input on a federal heat danger standard details dozens of subjects where the agency is seeking data and recommendations from stakeholders, including lessons learned from existing state and employer heat programs, metrics for identifying dangerous temperatures, and equity issues related to the hazard.
The Senate has confirmed Doug Parker as the first permanent head of OSHA since the Obama era in a mostly party-line Oct. 25 vote that puts the former California work-safety chief in control of the agency just as it is poised to implement a much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine standard and a host of the administration’s other priorities.
The Senate has confirmed Doug Parker as the first permanent head of OSHA since the Obama era in a mostly party-line Oct. 25 vote that puts the former California work-safety chief in control of the agency just as it is poised to implement a much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine standard and a host of the administration’s other priorities.
The Senate has confirmed Doug Parker as the first permanent head of OSHA since the Obama era in a mostly party-line Oct. 25 vote that puts the former California work-safety chief in control of the agency just as it is poised to implement a much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine standard and a host of the administration’s other priorities.