A newly published OSHA letter crafted during the final days of the Trump administration says the agency’s injury and illness recordkeeping mandate applies only once in situations where a worker suffers multiple injuries days apart but stemming from the same event, so that companies do not have to “double report” injuries.
A newly published OSHA letter crafted during the final days of the Trump administration says the agency’s injury and illness recordkeeping mandate applies only once in situations where a worker suffers multiple injuries days apart but stemming from the same event, so that companies do not have to “double report” injuries.
Former Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) Chairman James Sullivan has left the panel to return to private practice, opening a seat on the three-person panel more than a month before his term was slated to expire and setting the stage for President Joe Biden to name his first OSHRC nominee.
Former Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) Chairman James Sullivan has left the panel to return to private practice, opening a seat on the three-person panel more than a month before his term was slated to expire and setting the stage for President Joe Biden to name his first OSHRC nominee.
Attorneys representing an employer industry coalition are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to amend its controversial COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) to clarify and ease certain key provisions of the rules, while also tracking “cleanup” legislation in the state legislature to further address uncertainty over the ETS.
Attorneys representing an employer industry coalition are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to amend its controversial COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) to clarify and ease certain key provisions of the rules, while also tracking “cleanup” legislation in the state legislature to further address uncertainty over the ETS.
Attorneys representing an employer industry coalition are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to amend its controversial COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) to clarify and ease certain key provisions of the rules, while also tracking “cleanup” legislation in the state legislature to further address uncertainty over the ETS.
Animal welfare advocates challenging the Trump administration’s line-speed waivers for pork slaughterhouses say the Agriculture Department (USDA) is moving slowly, if at all, on a potential reconsideration of the policy, and they are renewing their push for a court ruling that would declare the waivers unlawful.
Animal welfare advocates challenging the Trump administration’s line-speed waivers for pork slaughterhouses say the Agriculture Department (USDA) is moving slowly, if at all, on a potential reconsideration of the policy, and they are renewing their push for a court ruling that would declare the waivers unlawful.
AFL-CIO health and safety director Rebecca Reindel says the Senate’s imminent confirmation of Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh could prompt OSHA to finish work on its emergency temporary standard (ETS) for COVID-19, after the agency missed President Joe Biden’s March 15 deadline to issue a rule.