News & Analysis as of September 22, 2024

Occupational Safety and Health Administration › Classification

+ Follow

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged... more +

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, April 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2024

Welcome to our first SuperVision e-newsletter of 2024. Although we are only four months into 2024, it has already been an incredibly active year on the labor and employment front. On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission...more

Do Recent Changes and Legal Challenges to the Independent Contractor Test Affect OSHA?

Cozen O'Connor on 3/7/2024

Businesses have struggled with the determination of who is an independent contractor vs employee for many decades. One of the challenges rests with the fact that the applicable legal test may be different depending on the...more

New Year, (Potentially) New Rules?

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 1/4/2024

Sometimes, the only constant is change. This New Year is no different. In 2023, we saw several developments in labor and employment law, including federal and state court decisions, regulations, and administrative agency...more

Manufacturers Should Prepare For OSHA’s New And Altered Proposed Hazard Communication Requirements

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/29/2021

Manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and importers have often struggled with communicating product hazards to downstream employees and users, due to complex hazard communication requirements in international standards, as...more

New And Altered Hazard Communication Requirements Coming Soon

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/22/2021

Earlier this month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced proposed amendments to the Hazard Communication Standard (“HCS”) in 29 CFR 1910.1200. The last time OSHA amended the HCS was in 2012 to...more

OSHA To Hold Informal Meeting In Preparation For United Nations Session on Chemicals

Fisher Phillips on 11/6/2019

OSHA announced yesterday that registration is open for an upcoming open informal public meeting to discuss proposals in preparation for the 38th session of the United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally...more

OSHA Announces Directive on HazCom

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/22/2015

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its much-anticipated directive to the agency’s compliance safety and health officers on its revised Hazard Communication (HazCom) standard yesterday. In 2012,...more

Canada Publishes Proposed Hazardous Products Regulation

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. on 9/5/2014

On August 9, 2014, the Government of Canada published in Gazette I (Vol. 148, no. 32) a proposal for adopting the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). The regulatory proposal seeks to...more

OSHA Modifies Hazardous Communication Standard to Conform to UN GHS

BakerHostetler on 9/26/2013

In 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) modified its existing Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) (29 CFR 1919.1200) to conform with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of...more

9 Results

/

View per page

Page: of 1