Despite an almost-certain veto by the Bush administration should the legislation make it to the White House, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, along with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash....
Congressional leaders and critics blasted OSHA's April 24 announcement of its national emphasis program that will target microwave popcorn facilities, arguing that the agency's program isn't enough to protect workers from the hazards of exposure...
During an April 24 hearing on Capitol Hill, federal lawmakers and critics lambasted OSHA and lamented that the agency's standard-setting system is “broken.”
In response to a lawsuit filed by three labor groups after OSHA did not include portland cement exposure in its April 2006 hexavalent chromium standard, the federal agency has agreed to inspect work sites for worker exposure to the compound.
The Florence, Ky., manufacturing facility of L'Oréal USA recently became the company's sixth U.S. plant to earn OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) status.
Worker advocate George Taylor – one of the fathers of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act – died of pneumonia March 23 in Rockville, Md. He was 95.