At least four conservative justices on the Supreme Court appear open -- if not eager -- to overturn the 40-year-old principle of Chevron deference, though their success hinges on whether they can convince at least one more of their colleagues to join them in striking down the doctrine that requires courts to defer to OSHA and other agencies’ reasonable interpretations of vague statutory text.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has sent its final rule updating the 50-year-old standards for respirable crystalline silica (RCS) to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, advancing a long-delayed rulemaking process and teeing up a last round of debate on the policy.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has sent its final rule updating the 50-year-old standards for respirable crystalline silica (RCS) to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, advancing a long-delayed rulemaking process and teeing up a last round of debate on the policy.
California’s public-health authority has eased its guidance on when COVID-19 is likely to be contagious, greatly loosening the state OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) requirement for employers to isolate workers with confirmed infections and likely also easing other elements of its permanent safety rules for the coronavirus, experts say.
California’s public-health authority has eased its guidance on when COVID-19 is likely to be contagious, greatly loosening the state OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) requirement for employers to isolate workers with confirmed infections and likely also easing other elements of its permanent safety rules for the coronavirus, experts say.
Attorneys and former officials say the Senate’s failure to confirm a second member to the Occupational Safety and Health Association Review Commission (OSHRC) threatens short- and long-term complications for OSHA enforcement, including a backlog of cases and prolonged uncertainty on whether employers will be penalized for failing to abate alleged violations.
OSHA has announced its annual inflation adjustments to minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties for violations cited in the coming year, raising both figures by about 3.2 percent and triggering a regulatory mandate for state plans to apply a matching adjustment to their own penalties, amid continuing litigation over whether than requirement is lawful.
California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board is gearing up to consider a long-pending, controversial proposal to adopt updated federal fall-protection safety standards for residential frame construction, amid continued fierce opposition from construction companies, employers and industry groups.
California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board is gearing up to consider a long-pending, controversial proposal to adopt updated federal fall-protection safety standards for residential frame construction, amid continued fierce opposition from construction companies, employers and industry groups.
A coalition of labor and environmental groups is urging OSHA to formally propose its long-delayed heat-danger standard before the start of summer, and to prioritize what they say are key elements for the eventual rule such as requiring employers to craft mandatory written safety programs and allow flexibility only within “careful” limits.