Industry is pressing Trump administration officials to make numerous changes to its draft scoping document for the TSCA risk evaluation of vinyl chloride, with manufacturers arguing EPA must acknowledge “unreasonable risk” is not just any type of risk and pointing to existing protections for workers.
Democrats are introducing legislation to strengthen health and safety protections for miners following the gutting of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which focuses in part on research related to black lung and innovative technologies to keep mines safe.
EPA deputy chemicals chief Nancy Beck is reminding agency science advisors that TSCA evaluations inform regulations that have “real consequences” for both workers and the general public who need to use chemicals such as 1,3-butadiene, and urged them to let staff know if the Biden-era evaluation missed something or is “overly conservative.”
Attorneys are advising employers to press California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to include maximum flexibility within its forthcoming proposed infectious disease standard for general industry, in part by applying lessons learned from the problematic implementation of COVID-19 worker-safety rules and guidance during the pandemic.
The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate nearly all aspects of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is likely to hamper OSHA’s ability to develop new regulations and ensure they are legally defensible as well as generally increase risks to workers, OSHA experts say.
The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate nearly all aspects of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is likely to hamper OSHA’s ability to develop new regulations and ensure they are legally defensible as well as generally increase risks to workers, OSHA experts say.
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit appeared skeptical during recent oral argument of a construction company’s arguments that OSHA’s multiemployer citation policy is unreasonable on its face and that the agency’s “selective” enforcement of the policy is also unreasonable.
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit appeared skeptical during recent oral argument of a construction company’s arguments that OSHA’s multiemployer citation policy is unreasonable on its face and that the agency’s “selective” enforcement of the policy is also unreasonable.
Labor unions are seeking to eliminate questions raised during recent oral argument about their standing to challenge the Biden-era TSCA framework rule for evaluating existing chemicals’ risks by providing the D.C. Circuit with what they say are clear declarations of how the rule would harm their members.
President Donald Trump has nominated Deputy Solicitor of Labor Jonathan Snare to serve on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), but without an additional nomination and confirmation to the panel, OSHRC will continue to lack a quorum to address the backlog of cases before it.