OSHA is backing away from a plan that critics said would have gutted SHARP, the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program.
OSHA’s leadership has reversed a basic American principle. Agency actions indicate its leaders hold the idea that companies are guilty until proven innocent.
Dec. 1 is the first deadline under OSHA’s new Globally Harmonized System regulation, which requires training on the new label elements and the new SDS format.
What to expect from OSHA’s new National Emphasis Program for Isocyanates and how to respond.
OSHA has implemented a number of programs over the last 5 years, but when it comes to the agency’s top priority, OSHA’s Administrator isn’t offering a timeline.
The recent news about the IRS has strangely, or maybe not so strangely, got me thinking about a high school algebra problem: if A=B and B=C, then does A=C? I’ll leave it to you to solve the problem and will …
Non-union employees can select anyone, including representatives of a union, to accompany an OSHA compliance officer during an inspection of their worksite, according to a recent interpretation letter issued by OSHA. This marks a major departure in procedures for OSHA …
OSHA is failing to hold state-run programs accountable for addressing problems in their programs in a timely manner, the Government Accounting Office says in a report. The report, released last week, finds a number of issues in states with their …
It appears likely that the Voluntary Protection Program would take a hit under the President’s proposed 2014 budget for OSHA, while funding for the whistleblower enforcement program would substantially increase. According to a report by Bloomberg BNA, OSHA would hire …
Advocates of ramped-up enforcement are pushing again to revise the Occupational Safety and Health Act, with a goal of increasing penalties and widening OSHA’s jurisdiction. The bill, introduced late last month in the Senate, would: Increase the maximum penalty for …