Industry attorneys say the incoming Trump EPA will likely try to reverse a host of the Biden administration’s TSCA actions including chemical-specific rules and risk evaluations that aim to limit workplace chemical exposures, but could struggle to overcome legal barriers to quick rollbacks as well as a potential wave of court challenges to its efforts.

A California roads authority is claiming that a Trump-era OSHA memo easing implementation of its scaffolding safety rule raised costs and introduced regulatory uncertainty for the state’s construction projects even though it is not directly bound by the policy, after the Biden administration argued that it lacks standing to challenge the letter in court.

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) and state prison officials plan to propose indoor heat safety rules specific to correctional institutions, after the state exempted those facilities from its first-time heat standards covering all other employers shortly before they took effect in July.

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) and state prison officials plan to propose indoor heat safety rules specific to correctional institutions, after the state exempted those facilities from its first-time heat standards covering all other employers shortly before they took effect in July.

OSHA has sent for White House review a draft final rule based on its proposal to mandate that construction employers ensure workers have properly fitting personal protective equipment (PPE), though even if the agency manages to enact the policy before the end of the Biden administration it faces uncertain prospects under President-elect Donald Trump.

Three chemical-sector groups are pressing EPA not to prioritize hydrogen fluoride (HF) -- used as a catalyst in oil refineries and other industrial contexts -- for risk evaluation under TSCA despite renewed calls from the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), saying OSHA standards and other rules already provide “comprehensive” protections.

Three chemical-sector groups are pressing EPA not to prioritize hydrogen fluoride (HF) -- used as a catalyst in oil refineries and other industrial contexts -- for risk evaluation under TSCA despite renewed calls from the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), saying OSHA standards and other rules already provide “comprehensive” protections.

OSHA is touting recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showing decreases in nonfatal injury and illness rates in 2023 as well as its own findings of a decline in fatal injuries that year as evidence its enforcement programs and collaboration with labor and industry are succeeding -- even as the incoming Trump administration could soon upend those policies.

After almost a decade of delay, OSHA has sent its proposed infectious disease standard for health care facilities and other “high-risk” environments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, teeing up its release just ahead of the transition to President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration.

After almost a decade of delay, OSHA has sent its proposed infectious disease standard for health care facilities and other “high-risk” environments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, teeing up its release just ahead of the transition to President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration.