The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in a new decision is rejecting OSHA’s broad reading of the universe of facilities subject to its safety standards for commercial diving, holding that the agency cannot apply the rule to aquarium divers because they fall under an exemption for “scientific” workers.

Virginia has approved its first-in-the-nation workplace standard for COVID-19 protections in a marker for other states weighing similar rules in response to OSHA’s refusal to craft a nationwide policy, even as congressional Democrats are renewing their push to force the agency to pursue a rulemaking in the next stimulus bill.

Virginia has approved its first-in-the-nation workplace standard for COVID-19 protections in a marker for other states weighing similar rules in response to OSHA’s refusal to craft a nationwide policy, even as congressional Democrats are renewing their push to force the agency to pursue a rulemaking in the next stimulus bill.

Virginia has approved its first-in-the-nation workplace standard for COVID-19 protections in a marker for other states weighing similar rules in response to OSHA’s refusal to craft a nationwide policy, even as congressional Democrats are renewing their push to force the agency to pursue a rulemaking in the next stimulus bill.

Virginia has approved its first-in-the-nation workplace standard for COVID-19 protections in a marker for other states weighing similar rules in response to OSHA’s refusal to craft a nationwide policy, even as congressional Democrats are renewing their push to force the agency to pursue a rulemaking in the next stimulus bill.

A federal appellate court is backing OSHA’s interpretation of its process safety management (PSM) standard against a poultry plant’s argument that the agency is applying an overbroad definition of “process” equipment subject to the rule, and is requiring more testing than “reasonable” engineering practices dictate.

House appropriators have released a report on their fiscal year 2021 OSHA funding bill that seeks to boost the agency’s enforcement budget by $10 million while calling for the agency to issue both a worker protection standard for COVID-19 and its workplace violence standard for health care, though it stops short of legally mandating either rule.

House appropriators have released a report on their fiscal year 2021 OSHA funding bill that seeks to boost the agency’s enforcement budget by $10 million while calling for the agency to issue both a worker protection standard for COVID-19 and its workplace violence standard for health care, though it stops short of legally mandating either rule.

House appropriators have released a report on their fiscal year 2021 OSHA funding bill that seeks to boost the agency’s enforcement budget by $10 million while calling for the agency to issue both a worker protection standard for COVID-19 and its workplace violence standard for health care, though it stops short of legally mandating either rule.

OSHA is finalizing its rule to “clarify” key elements of the 2017 general-industry exposure standards for beryllium including a new definition of “work areas” that won support from unions as a way to ease compliance with the standards and thus bolster worker protections, even as litigation over the underlying policy continues.