The ball has dropped, the confetti has been swept out of Times Square, and 2024 is in the books. It’s time to take a look back and take stock of what we learned from and about OSHA over the past four years of the Biden/Harris...more
1/16/2025
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Workplace Safety
Following another close national election, President Trump returns to the White House for a second term, and resumes control over the vast Executive Branch bureaucracy, including the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...more
12/4/2024
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Emergency Response ,
Health and Safety ,
Heat Exposure ,
Infectious Diseases ,
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Recordkeeping Requirements ,
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Workplace Safety
After years of stagnation, we’ve finally seen movement on updating process safety regulations during the Biden administration. But the revamped PSM standard and RMP rules have yet to see the light of day. We’ll discuss when...more
6/27/2024
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Cal-OSHA ,
California ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
New Rules ,
OSHA ,
Process Safety Management ,
Risk Management ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
Over the last decade, Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) has been an ever-evolving regulatory topic around the globe. Younger generations joining the workforce have been vocal about the importance of environmental...more
2/19/2024
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Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Health and Safety ,
OSHA ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Sustainability ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
OSHA’s Lockout/Tagout (Energy Control) Standard is always one of OSHA’s most frequently cited standards, and with the “Amputations National Emphasis Program” continuing into 2018, as well as LOTO violations continuing to be...more
The ball has dropped, the confetti has been swept out of Times Square, and 2017 is in the books. It’s time to look back and take stock of what we learned from and about OSHA over the past year. More importantly, the...more
Following the tragic West Fertilizer explosion in 2013, Pres. Obama issued an Executive Order directing OSHA, EPA and other agencies to “modernize” the manner in which the government regulates chemical manufacturing...more
The Obama Administration rolled-out a major change to OSHA’s Fatality & Injury Reporting Rule, which resulted in thousands of more reports of incidents to OSHA. Now, three years into the new reporting scheme, this webinar...more
OSHA’s controversial Electronic Injury and Illness Recordkeeping data submission rule, along with new Anti-Retaliation elements, has thus far survived a barrage of negative stakeholder comments during the rulemaking, multiple...more
President Trump was carried to the White House on promises (or threats) of rolling back government regulations. At the CPAC conference this year, Pres. Trump’s Sr. Policy Advisor, Steve Bannon, framed much of Trump’s agenda...more
Employers’ perceptions about their legal responsibilities for certain workers is not always reality. Although an employer may classify workers as temporary workers or independent contractors, that does not mean the...more
OSHA’s controversial new Electronic Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Anti-Retaliation Rule has thus far survived a barrage of negative stakeholder comments during the rulemaking, multiple enforcement deferrals, and a...more
The state of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), better known as Cal/OSHA, is perhaps the most aggressive and enforcement-heavy approved state OSH Program in the nation. California employers face...more
OSHA initiated a “Standards Improvement Project” in 1995 in response to a memorandum from Pres. Clinton in order to make non-controversial, consensus changes to requirements in OSHA standards that are confusing, outdated,...more
The ball has dropped, the confetti has been swept out of Times Square, and 2016 (and the Obama Administration) is in the books. It is time to look back at the year and take stock of what we learned from and about OSHA over...more
Although not typically thought of as a hotbed of OSHA/Employment law activity, access to bathrooms by both employees, as well as members of the public, has become a high profile issue of late. OSHA has always required...more
11/30/2016
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Employee Restrooms ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
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Right of Access ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Webinars
OSHA compliance issues have been long ignored in the due diligence process for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. With OSHA’s new focus on follow-up inspections and Repeat citations, and expanding the concept of...more
10/24/2016
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Citations ,
Compliance ,
Divestiture ,
Due Diligence ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Health and Safety ,
OSHA ,
Penalties ,
Safety Inspections ,
Safety Violations ,
Successor Liability ,
Webinars
In just a couple of weeks, we will have the opportunity to enter the voting booth, and cast a ballot to elect the next President of the United States. The platforms and proposed polices of the candidates are more divergent...more
You just received a set of OSHA citations in the mail. What now? Should we accept the citations and pay the penalty? Should we participate in an Informal Settlement Conference with the OSHA Area Office? Should we contest...more
8/24/2016
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Labor Law Violations ,
OSHA ,
Penalties ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Investigations ,
Workplace Safety ,
Wrongful Death
Employers’ perceptions about their legal responsibilities for certain workers is not always reality. Although an employer may classify workers as temporary workers or independent contractors, that does not mean the...more
The state of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), better known as Cal/OSHA, is perhaps the most aggressive and enforcement heavy approved state OSH program. Cal/OSHA faces many fewer bureaucratic...more
7/7/2016
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Citations ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal v State Law Application ,
Health and Safety ,
Heat Exposure ,
Labor Law Violations ,
OSHA ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Investigations ,
Workplace Safety
As the clock winds down on the Obama Administration, OSHA has been rushing out a series of proposed amendments to its Injury & Illness Recordkeeping regulations (29 C.F.R. Part 1904). Among them is a new final rule to...more
Perhaps the most significant safety related regulatory reform during the Obama Administration has been the amended Hazard Communication Standard, bringing OSHA’s chemical Right-to-Know regulation more in line with the United...more