The California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board has readopted -- and strengthened -- a controversial COVID-19 worker-safety emergency temporary standard (ETS) through next April, even as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) authorized the board to continue the standard through the end of 2022 while officials continue to work on a permanent standard.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has denied petitions for initial en banc review of the consolidated challenges to OSHA’s vaccine emergency temporary standard (ETS), opening the field of judges who could potentially serve on a three-judge panel to decide whether to lift an injunction blocking the standard’s adoption.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has denied petitions for initial en banc review of the consolidated challenges to OSHA’s vaccine emergency temporary standard (ETS), opening the field of judges who could potentially serve on a three-judge panel to decide whether to lift an injunction blocking the standard’s adoption.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has denied petitions for initial en banc review of the consolidated challenges to OSHA’s vaccine emergency temporary standard (ETS), opening the field of judges who could potentially serve on a three-judge panel to decide whether to lift an injunction blocking the standard’s adoption.
Worker-safety advocates are urging OSHA to promulgate a disaster-response standard to ensure that employers are prepared for extreme weather-related events, in the aftermath of recent tornados that leveled workplaces across the Midwest and killed at least six workers at an Illinois Amazon warehouse and eight at a Kentucky candle factory.
OSHA plans to propose this month a rulemaking to withdraw state plan status from Arizona, according to its newly released Unified Agenda for regulatory actions that also targets May for a proposal that would grant partial state plan status to Massachusetts and sets updated timelines for a host of previously announced rulemakings.
OSHA plans to propose this month a rulemaking to withdraw state plan status from Arizona, according to its newly released Unified Agenda for regulatory actions that also targets May for a proposal that would grant partial state plan status to Massachusetts and sets updated timelines for a host of previously announced rulemakings.
OSHA plans to propose this month a rulemaking to withdraw state plan status from Arizona, according to its newly released Unified Agenda for regulatory actions that also targets May for a proposal that would grant partial state plan status to Massachusetts and sets updated timelines for a host of previously announced rulemakings.
Animal welfare and labor rights advocates are taking aim at the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) new “time-limited trials” allowing some poultry and pork slaughterhouses to raise line speeds if they implement worker safety measures, saying they see little difference from a speed-waiver program that a court scrapped earlier this year.
The Senate has confirmed by voice vote two of President Joe Biden’s three nominees to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), moving the panel, which investigates industrial incidents and advises OSHA and other agencies, closer to full strength after it spent more than a year with a single member.