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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 -

OMB Solicits Public Comment on Eliminating Regulations, Including OSHA Rules

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/23/2025

Every safety professional has an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation he or she cannot stand, believes is a waste of time, energy, and/or money, or considers outdated and antiquated. Even the...more

OSHA Pushes Outdoor and Indoor Heat Rule

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/18/2024

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has moved a step closer to a final rule for “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings.” OSHA sent the yet-to-be-unveiled rule to the...more

BREAKING: OSHA Issues Final Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process Rule

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 4/1/2024

After an unusually short time at OMB, earlier today, OSHA revealed a pre-publication version of its Final Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process Rule. The Official Final Rule will issue when it is published in...more

MSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Rule Clears OMB Review – Final Rule Is Imminent

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 4/1/2024

We have an important update to share about the status of MSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica rulemaking, officially proposed as Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection....more

OSHA’s Worker Walkaround Rule Clears OMB Review – Final Rule Is Imminent

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 3/25/2024

We have an important update to share about the status and now more clear outcome of OSHA’s rulemaking for a Worker Walkaround Designation Process Rule. Thursday, OMB updated the entry on its website about the Worker...more

OSHA Sends Proposed Final “Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process” Rule to OMB

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 3/19/2024

In early 2023, OSHA revealed plans for a rulemaking for a Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process Rule that would amend existing regulation 29 CFR § 1903.8(c), which governs participation by third parties in OSHA...more

Beltway Buzz - September 2023 #5

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/2/2023

Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more

The Site Report - Construction Law Insights, Issue 2, January 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/1/2023

EEOC Increases Scrutiny on Discrimination and Harassment in the Construction Industry as Federal Infrastructure Dollars Start Flowing - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) plans to prioritize its efforts to...more

OSHA Pursues Potential Standard for Prevention of Workplace Violence in Healthcare and Social Assistance and Unions Urge...

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/17/2023

The increase in the frequency of violent confrontations faced by healthcare workers in the workplace is prompting OSHA to pursue a standard for Prevention of Workplace Violence in the Healthcare and Social Assistance...more

OMB Releases Regulatory Agenda for Fall 2022 for OSHA/MSHA/DOL

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/11/2023

On January 4, 2023, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the 2022 Unified Regulatory Agenda and Regulatory Plan (Fall 2022 Agenda) that reports on all planned rulemaking actions of administrative...more

Final Steps of OSHA’s Proposed Permanent COVID-19 Standard for Healthcare

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/6/2023

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 rulemaking process has been quiet for a while, but recent activity appears to indicate we are now entering the final phase of a permanent COVID-19 standard...more

CPSC Presses Onward with Equity Action Plan

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/25/2022

In late spring, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) held a roundtable for interested stakeholders to discuss the Equity Action Plan it issued on January 20, 2022. In hosting the public forum, the CPSC sought to...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Enforcement Halted in 3 States/Deadline Delayed Nationwide

ArentFox Schiff on 12/6/2021

Shifting standards and deadlines place additional burdens on contractors seeking to remain in compliance. What to Know - On November 30, 2021, a federal judge granted an injunction barring the government from enforcing the...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Enjoined in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee: The Implications

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts... on 12/6/2021

The Government’s enforcement of contract provisions implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate with regard to federal contractors and subcontractors required by President Biden’s Executive Order 14042 (the EO) was...more

OMB Attempts to Plug Holes in the Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/18/2021

Likely in response to the flurry of litigation challenging the government contractor vaccine mandate, on November 16 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a new notice of determination and request for comments...more

Untangling the Vaccine Mandate – Updates and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 11/12/2021

Since our October 14, 2021 webinar, much has developed in the rapidly evolving compliance world of Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (“EO” or “EO 14042”). In case you...more

COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates: OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard on the Move

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 11/8/2021

On Monday, November 1, 2021, CNBC reported the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") completed its review of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS") that will require larger employers to either adopt a policy for...more

OSHA Vaccine Mandate Standard Expected Any Day Now

McGlinchey Stafford on 10/14/2021

Is your business ready to weather another Covid-19 storm?- On October 12, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its draft of the proposed enforcement standards to the White House’s Office...more

BREAKING: Task Force Issues Vaccine Guidance For Contractors

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/27/2021

Vaccine mandate for many contractors is now imminent. As ordered by President Joe Biden, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force issued guidance today for federal contractors regarding COVID-19 prevention. Given the...more

What’s Next For Federal Contractors And Mandatory COVID-19 Safety Protocols

McCarter & English Blog: Government Contracts... on 9/15/2021

A day following his national address on September 8, 2021, President Biden issued two Executive Orders directed respectively to federal employees and federal contractors with the stated purpose of decreasing or halting the...more

President Biden Tasks Federal Contractors With Ensuring Adequate COVID-19 Safety Protocols

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/14/2021

The Path Out of the Pandemic - President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan is broad and multi-faceted. In addition to a strategy for employers with at least 100 employees, the Plan includes an Executive Order tasking federal...more

The Wait Is Over and It’s Good News: OSHA Releases General Industry Guidance for ‎COVID-19

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/30/2021

The day after President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, he issued an Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, which directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider...more

OSHA Issues COVID-19 Rule for Health Care Industry and Guidance for Other Industries

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 6/14/2021

In response to President Biden’s January 2021 Executive Order, OSHA finally issues a proposed emergency temporary standard, albeit for the health care industry only. Health care industry is to comply with most provisions...more

OSHA Issues Federal COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/11/2021

On June 9, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its long anticipated interim final rule and request for comments for the Occupational Exposure to COVID-19; Emergency Temporary Standard...more

Are We Ever Going To See A COVID-19 ETS And, If So, What Will It Look Like? My Meeting With The White House This Week Didn’t...

Cozen O'Connor on 5/26/2021

The one question on everyone’s mind is when, if ever, will employers learn whether OSHA will actually issue the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that OSHA delivered to the White House’s Office of Management and...more

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