For employers, particularly those with multiple worksites, controlling corporate OSHA liability is generally a key goal. An employer that accepts a machine guarding violation at its Texas facility, ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an effort to significantly increase the number of citations and penalties it may issue during an inspection, OSHA has updated its enforcement procedures for inspections to permit ...

Responding to reports that OSHA is longer settling willful citations by re-categorizing them as "unclassified," Rich Fairfax, the agency's director of enforcement programs, insisted there has been no ...

OSHA has issued its National Emergency Management Plan (NEMP), a new directive that clarifies the agency's policies during responses to national emergencies, ensuring personnel and logistical and ...

John Henshaw didn’t know the legacy he would create in 2001, when he helped oversee the government response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Then the head of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health ...

BISMARCK – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, along with Sen. Deb Fisher of Nebraska, have introduced a bipartisan bill called the Fertilizer Access and Responsible Management (FARM) Act that would force the ...

OSHA recently issued two revised enforcement policies to ensure employers are protecting their employees with respect to the coronavirus as economies reopen in states across the country. First, OSHA ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced May 19 that it has adopted revised policies for enforcing its requirements with respect to the coronavirus ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued two revised enforcement policies May 19 related to COVID-19. OSHA said the policies are to ensure employers protect ...

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