An employer-focused law firm is launching a coalition to craft recommendations for targeted changes to OSHA and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rules, responding to the Trump administration’s call for stakeholders’ feedback on federal regulations that are onerous, outdated or unnecessary.
President Donald Trump is stepping up his administration’s aggressive deregulatory agenda, issuing a memorandum requiring the repeal of OSHA and other agency rules that officials deem “unlawful” under recent Supreme Court precedents while also issuing ordering several agencies to begin considering a “sunset” of rules related to energy production.
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.
Chemical distributors are urging the Labor Department to roll back two Biden-era OSHA regulations and drop plans for finalizing two proposed rules, arguing they impose excessive compliance costs without improving worker safety and meet the requirements in a recent executive order aimed at reducing regulatory burdens.
President Donald Trump is instructing OSHA and other agencies to develop a list of existing regulations that could be targeted for repeal if they meet one of over half a dozen criteria defined as inconsistent with administration policy, while also directing officials to use “enforcement discretion” not to implement many of those rules in the meantime.
Amanda Wood Laihow, who recently served on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), has reportedly been appointed as OSHA’s deputy assistant secretary and could serve as the acting head of OSHA in the absence of a Senate-approved assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has rescinded its controversial memo seeking to freeze a wide array of OSHA and other federal funds to review their consistency with Trump administration priorities after a federal judge temporarily stayed the measure.
President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders (EOs) targeting federal employees at OSHA and other agencies, including measures stripping many workers of civil service protections, freezing new hiring, overhauling existing hiring practices and ending work-from-home allowances.
OSHA’s updated hazard communication standard (HCS) appears set to reach a July 19 deadline for legal challenges with no known industry suits that might seek to reverse its newly tightened chemical-labeling mandates -- a move that one industry attorney says appears to be driven by manufacturers’ focus on litigating EPA’s TSCA rules instead.
EPA is proposing to ban the solvent n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) in fertilizers, lubricants and a handful of other products while setting strict new requirements for its continued use in other sectors, including both workplace exposure limits and product restrictions designed to protect consumers in its latest TSCA chemical risk-management rule.