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6 Biggest Changes to Expect As OSHA Moves to Overhaul Fire Brigade Rule to Cover Emergency Response Workers

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Federal workplace safety officials are one step closer to completely overhauling the rules covering fire brigades and broadly expanding them to include emergency response workers – but an open question remains about when the...more

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OSHA Hints at Review of Proposed Emergency Response Standard’s Applicability to Volunteer Emergency Response Organizations

On September 17, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a statement concerning the proposed revisions to the Fire Brigades Standard (to become the “Emergency Response Standard”)....more

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OSHA Proposes Emergency Response Rule

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed to update its long-standing emergency response requirements, and stakeholders still have an opportunity to provide their input to OSHA. OSHA published a...more

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OSHA Proposes Expansion of Workplace Protections for Emergency Responders

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed a rule to replace and expand its Fire Brigades Standard. The proposed Emergency Response Standard would impose new requirements on employers with employees...more

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OSHA Proposes to Replace Its Existing Fire Brigades Standard With New Comprehensive Emergency Response Standard

On February 5, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) related to the Fire Brigades standard, 29 C.F.R. 1910.156, and related standards. ...more

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EC amends Temporary Crisis Framework for State Aid in the context of the invasion of Ukraine

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On 20 July 2022, the European Commission (the EC) amended its recently approved Temporary Crisis Framework for State Aid measures to support the economy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (the Temporary Crisis Framework)....more

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TCEQ Proposes Important Changes to Its Compliance History Rules

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has proposed changes to compliance history rules that would authorize the Executive Director to unilaterally “reclassify” a facility’s compliance history in the wake of an...more

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California Fire Marshall Makes Additional Changes to its Proposed Oil Pipeline Safety Regulations

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On October 1, 2019, the California Office of State Fire Marshall (“OSFM”) published additional changes to its proposed regulations implementing Best Available Technology (“BAT”) requirements for hazardous liquid pipelines....more

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Stay or Go: D.C. Circuit Halts EPA’s Stay of Obama-era Risk Management Plan Amendments

On August 17, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated a rule that delayed the effective date of the 2017 Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule amendments issued by the U.S....more

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