The California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board has approved new rules requiring employers to give workers injury and illness prevention program documents within five days upon request, over industry objections that compliance could be difficult and calls from farmworkers and labor unions to expand and strengthen the rules.
The California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board has approved new rules requiring employers to give workers injury and illness prevention program documents within five days upon request, over industry objections that compliance could be difficult and calls from farmworkers and labor unions to expand and strengthen the rules.
Major industry groups are seeking to intervene on EPA’s behalf in litigation brought by environmentalists and a labor union challenging the agency’s rollback of Obama-era Risk Management Plan (RMP) facility safety mandates, an action the industry groups may need should President Trump lose re-election and the next administration abandons its defense of the rollback.
Major industry groups are seeking to intervene on EPA’s behalf in litigation brought by environmentalists and a labor union challenging the agency’s rollback of Obama-era Risk Management Plan (RMP) facility safety mandates, an action the industry groups may need should President Trump lose re-election and the next administration abandons its defense of the rollback.
A federal appeals court judge says a psychiatric hospital faces a “tough argument” to make in its appeal of a penalty OSHA imposed under its General Duty Clause authority for not adequately addressing workplace violence, doubting the facility’s claim that the lack of a specific agency directive of how to reduce the hazard violates due process.
Litigation filed by food workers unions over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) revised swine slaughter facility inspection rule is testing whether the department has a duty to protect workers, with the challengers saying the rule is unlawful because it does not offer such protections while USDA says it is not subject to such a mandate.
Litigation filed by food workers unions over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) revised swine slaughter facility inspection rule is testing whether the department has a duty to protect workers, with the challengers saying the rule is unlawful because it does not offer such protections while USDA says it is not subject to such a mandate.
OSHA has issued a final rule that hikes by almost 2 percent the cost of civil penalties it will impose when enforcing against employers for violations of its policies, a move that may result in increases in total penalties imposed as part of a broader effort by OSHA to increase enforcement.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB) proposed accidental chemical release rule is drawing competing criticisms, with environmentalists and other advocacy groups saying it weakens reporting mandates to the point of being “useless” while industry entities claim it risks subjecting companies to “inappropriate enforcement.”
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB) proposed accidental chemical release rule is drawing competing criticisms, with environmentalists and other advocacy groups saying it weakens reporting mandates to the point of being “useless” while industry entities claim it risks subjecting companies to “inappropriate enforcement.”