Colorado has expanded its heat standard covering agricultural workers to include both hot and cold temperature extremes and all other types of workers, potentially increasing pressure on OSHA to finalize its long-pending heat standard or encouraging other states to take similar action in the absence of a federal rule.
November 15, 2026
Colorado has expanded its heat standard covering agricultural workers to include both hot and cold temperature extremes and all other types of workers, potentially increasing pressure on OSHA to finalize its long-pending heat standard or encouraging other states to take similar action in the absence of a federal rule.
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OSHA and a broad coalition of employers are asking a federal district court to rule on the coalition’s challenge to the Biden-era walkaround rule without holding oral argument, noting the case has been pending for over two years and has been fully briefed since Oct. 2, 2024.
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The House Appropriations Committee is making cuts to OSHA’s fiscal year 2027 budget that go beyond President Trump’s requested reductions to the agency, removing an additional $5.48 million on top of the $46.9 million reductions the White House requested from FY26-enacted levels.
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The Agriculture Department (USDA) is optimistic that its proposals to increase processing speeds at poultry and pork slaughterhouses will be upheld in court, pointing to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling that it says eliminated the need to consider worker safety, which is not part of USDA’s authority.
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The Agriculture Department (USDA) is optimistic that its proposals to increase processing speeds at poultry and pork slaughterhouses will be upheld in court, pointing to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling that it says eliminated the need to consider worker safety, which is not part of USDA’s authority.
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The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is renewing its calls for OSHA to amend its process safety management (PSM) standard to address reactive hazards, saying that implementing such requirements could have prevented a fatal accident at a caramel coloring manufacturing plant in Kentucky.
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Labor unions are urging EPA to maintain current compliance deadlines for workplace exposure requirements in the Biden-era TSCA rules on carbon tetrachloride (CTC or CCl4) and perchloroethylene (perc or PCE), arguing the agency’s plan to extend the deadlines until June 2027 will harm workers.
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OSHA has scheduled a series of informal public hearings for August on a host of deregulatory proposals unveiled last year, including a plan to eliminate medical evaluation requirements for certain respirators that the agency’s construction advisory panel has recommended OSHA drop.
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OSHA has scheduled a series of informal public hearings for August on a host of deregulatory proposals unveiled last year, including a plan to eliminate medical evaluation requirements for certain respirators that the agency’s construction advisory panel has recommended OSHA drop.
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