Worker-safety advocacy groups and employer representatives continue to clash over proposed amendments to California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) workplace violence-prevention standard, including over key definitions, employee representatives’ access to records and training requirements.

Texas produce groups are pushing back on OSHA’s efforts to dismiss the groups’ constitutional challenge to the OSH Act, arguing the agency is failing to address the merits of their arguments and instead is raising various procedural defenses that are flawed.

A Texas oil field equipment supplier has dropped without comment its legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), which it originally filed after receiving OSHA citations related to the death of a subcontractor’s employee.

A Texas oil field equipment supplier has dropped without comment its legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), which it originally filed after receiving OSHA citations related to the death of a subcontractor’s employee.

Battery makers and other critical users of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) are pointing to a worker protection value in EPA’s Biden-era TSCA rule restricting most uses of the solvent to support their argument that even though the rule provided them extended phaseout timelines, the conditions are too stringent and thus violate the toxics law.

The Labor Department (DOL) is not making any adjustments to civil money penalties in 2026 -- including for OSHA and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) -- because the lapse in federal funding last fall prevented the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from producing the data necessary for any such adjustments.

California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board is granting a petition to launch a rulemaking to prohibit the fabrication and installation of artificial stone products containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica -- a move to protect workers after hundreds have contracted the deadly lung disease silicosis in recent years and more than 30 have died.

California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board is granting a petition to launch a rulemaking to prohibit the fabrication and installation of artificial stone products containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica -- a move to protect workers after hundreds have contracted the deadly lung disease silicosis in recent years and more than 30 have died.

OSHA’s construction-sector advisory panel is backing the agency’s long-discussed plan to develop a tree care standard, noting state and industry standards that could serve as a model for a national standard and highlighting areas where construction activities overlap with actions that could be considered tree care.

California lawmakers are advancing some bills to bolster Cal/OSHA worker-protection standards and enforcement, while blocking others, including an industry-sponsored measure that would have required Cal/OSHA to develop an application and certification process for artificial stone fabrication shops to help reduce crystalline silica exposure.