Congressional leaders who introduced legislation mandating OSHA and the Department of Labor to release a standard requiring employers to pay for the personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by some 20 million workers are applauding a decision by...
In response to a lawsuit filed in January by the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the Department of Labor promises that by November OSHA will issue a final rule on its proposed employer-payment-for-PPE standard.
OSHA has sent a letter to approximately 14,000 employers to notify them that injury and illness rates at their work sites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them better protect their employees.
OSHA proposed $151,500 in fines against the WACO Equipment Co. of Columbus, Ohio, for alleged violations that contributed to the death of an employee in September.
OSHA has given the Department of Interior until March 7 to demonstrate that alleged safety and health hazards at the department's headquarters have been removed or that no hazards exist.
Doug Bourgeois, director of the National Business Center within the Department of Interior, told OccupationalHazards.com that the Department of Interior is taking steps to correct safety and health problems outlined in both an internal audit and...
A Columbus, Ohio, foam insulation manufacturing plant is facing $155,000 in proposed OSHA fines and two willful citations following the death of an employee in August.
In letters to Washington State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Rep. Steve Conway, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President Donald Jones, Sr., PE, CSP, expressed support for increased oversight of cranes on worksites by the Washington...
OSHA has cited Provident Pharmaceuticals LLC in Colorado Springs, Colo., and fined it a total of $251,500 after the company failed to address an employee complaint about workers allegedly being exposed to air contaminants and covered by dust as...
