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Be Ready to Defend the Castle: Employers Need a Written OSHA Inspection Management Policy

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Federal OSHA conducted 24,333 onsite inspections in 2021, resulting in thousands of citations. Make no mistake, OSHA (and especially Cal/OSHA) have been gearing up with a new generation of compliance officers, training them...more

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OSHA Signals Rulemaking to Broaden Scope of Who Is Permitted to Accompany Compliance Officers During Worksite Inspections

In February 2013, during the early months of the second term of the Obama administration, a standard interpretation related to Occupational Safety and Health Act regulations at 29 C.F.R. § 1903.8(c) that later became known as...more

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How to Respond When OSHA Knocks

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Learn what to expect during an OSHA inspection and how to handle the entire OSHA inspection process with confidence. Goldberg Segalla’s Michael Rubin and Kate Badey of Safety Consultants USA will provide practice pointers for...more

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[Webinar] How to Respond When OSHA Knocks - October 13th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Learn what to expect during an OSHA inspection and how to handle the entire OSHA inspection process with confidence. Goldberg Segalla’s Michael Rubin and Kate Badey of Safety Consultants USA will provide practice pointers for...more

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Labor & Employment E-Note - March 2021

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Spotlight - Burr & Forman Represents Coastal Carolina University in Title IX Defense Verdict - Jim Gilliam and Hunter Freeman successfully represented Coastal Carolina University in a five-day federal jury trial...more

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OSHA's COVID-19 National Emphasis Program and Enforcement Response Plan – Targeted Inspections to Begin by March 26, 2021

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On January 21, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order directing the Department of Labor’s launch of a national program to focus OSHA enforcement efforts related to COVID-19 on hazardous conditions that put the...more

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Be Prepared For Increase In COVID-19 Inspections Under OSHA’s New National Emphasis Program

On March 12, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) designed to significantly reduce worker exposure to COVID-19 by targeting industries and worksites...more

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OSHA Adopts New COVID-19 National Emphasis Program to Increase Its Enforcement Efforts

On March 12, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) launched its new COVID-19 National Emphasis Program (“NEP”). The new OSHA directive outlines policies and procedures for minimizing worker...more

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Canada: Supreme Court Limits Safety Inspection Duty of Federally-regulated Employers to Workplaces under their Control

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In Canada Post Corp. v. Canadian Union of Postal Workers, 2019 SCC 67, one of the last decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) in 2019, the court clarified the extent of a federally-regulated employer’s inspection...more

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2020 Environmental, Health & Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

Welcome to 2020! As always, we at the Manufacturing Law Blog are starting the year with our annual forecasts of hot topics....more

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OSHA Updates National Emphasis Program on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA recently updated its National Emphasis Program on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries (NEP), adding a targeting methodology for industries with high employer-reported amputation statistics....more

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Another Update from the 2019 ABA Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth Shaw’s OSHA/MSHA group is at the ABA’s Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting this week. ...more

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Can You Dig It? OSHA Releases Onerous New National Emphasis Program On Trenching and Excavation

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has recently released its National Emphasis Program on Trenching and Excavation, CPL 02-00-161 (October 1, 2018), which requires OSHA to open inspections against any contractor involved in trenching or...more

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México: Nuevo Sistema Permite a Patrones Informar su Cumplimiento de la Ley Laboral y Evitar Inspecciones

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El 1° de agosto de 2017, la Secretaria del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS) anunció la creación de un sistema en línea para medir y monitorear el cumplimiento de los patrones de las normas que regulan las condiciones...more

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Mexico: New System Allows Employers to Self-Report Compliance with Labor Law and Avoid Inspection Visits

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Mexico’s Labor Department (known as the “STPS” for its acronym in Spanish) has created an online system to measure and monitor employers’ compliance with the laws regulating the working conditions, training, safety and health...more

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