Labor groups and employers are offering widely divergent responses to OSHA’s release of “comprehensive” workplace safety data from the first year of its long-debated electronic recordkeeping and reporting program, with industry fearing misuse of the information while unions and their allies are welcoming it as a major step for transparency.

The Biden OSHA could advance as many as four rules ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, according to its new regulatory agenda, including a long-awaited proposed infectious disease safety standard, fall protection mandates for elevated walking surfaces, and several statute-specific whistleblower protection procedures.

OSHA is again urging a federal court to permanently dismiss for lack of standing a California road authority’s challenge to a Trump-era memo easing implementation of federal scaffolding safety mandates, arguing that the plaintiff’s amended complaint still fails to establish that it has standing to bring its suit.

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is touting what it says is the state’s first citation for a “willful” violation of outdoor heat safety standards, targeting a landscape maintenance company with a fine of more than $276,000 and underscoring the agency’s renewed commitment to bolster enforcement efforts.

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is touting what it says is the state’s first citation for a “willful” violation of outdoor heat safety standards, targeting a landscape maintenance company with a fine of more than $276,000 and underscoring the agency’s renewed commitment to bolster enforcement efforts.

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is touting what it says is the state’s first citation for a “willful” violation of outdoor heat safety standards, targeting a landscape maintenance company with a fine of more than $276,000 and underscoring the agency’s renewed commitment to bolster enforcement efforts.

EPA has issued a final TSCA risk management rule for the solvent carbon tetrachloride (CTC) that sets strict new worker-protection requirements for many applications of the chemical while allowing industry to continue most if not all of those current uses, while extending key compliance deadlines from what it proposed last year.

EPA has issued a final TSCA risk management rule for the solvent carbon tetrachloride (CTC) that sets strict new worker-protection requirements for many applications of the chemical while allowing industry to continue most if not all of those current uses, while extending key compliance deadlines from what it proposed last year.

OSHA has finalized as proposed a long-awaited rule that expands fit-testing requirements for personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction -- a measure the agency has argued will protect workers who are smaller or larger than average adults, especially women, but which could be a rollback priority for the incoming Trump administration.

OSHA has finalized as proposed a long-awaited rule that expands fit-testing requirements for personal protective equipment (PPE) in construction -- a measure the agency has argued will protect workers who are smaller or larger than average adults, especially women, but which could be a rollback priority for the incoming Trump administration.