For employers, particularly those with multiple worksites, controlling corporate OSHA liability is generally a key goal. An employer that accepts a machine guarding violation at its Texas facility, ...

OSHA announced June 18 that it will address problems identified in its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) in response to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, which recommended ...

Responding to reports that OSHA is longer settling willful citations by re-categorizing them as "unclassified," Rich Fairfax, the agency's director of enforcement programs, insisted there has been no ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an effort to significantly increase the number of citations and penalties it may issue during an inspection, OSHA has updated its enforcement procedures for inspections to permit ...

OSHA recently issued two revised enforcement policies to ensure employers are protecting their employees with respect to the coronavirus as economies reopen in states across the country. First, OSHA ...

BISMARCK – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, along with Sen. Deb Fisher of Nebraska, have introduced a bipartisan bill called the Fertilizer Access and Responsible Management (FARM) Act that would force the ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced May 19 that it has adopted revised policies for enforcing its requirements with respect to the coronavirus ...

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated safe handling policies at a helium plant in the Texas Panhandle, federal work-safety investigators reported Thursday. The ...

Members of the Glen Oaks Community College Board of Trustees Thursday discussed OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard compliance regarding COVID-19 vaccines and testing. Jamie Yesh, director of human ...

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