AFL-CIO Calls on White House to Recall OSHA Recordkeeping Rule Update
The AFL-CIO has asked the White House Office of Management and Budget to recall the administration’s rule rolling back workplace…
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Weakening Beryllium Protections: How Business Influence Affects Regulatory Process
A new Reuters investigative piece describes how industry influence has gotten OSHA to weaken worker protections from exposure to beryllium.
White House Finalizes OSHA Recordkeeping Rollback: But It’s a Mystery
OIRA has rushed to approve OSHA's rollback of its recordkeeping regulation despite the fact that the agency review the regulation…
Alex Acosta
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Year in Review
2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
Shot, Stabbed and Assaulted: Violence Against Nurses
Check out this excellent video on workplace violence against nurses by Newsy investigative reporter Patrick Terpstra. Aside from the jarring…
Department of Labor
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda: No Surprises
Lots happening these days: the grizzly murder of a Saudi journalist, baseball championships (Go Dodgers!!), mid-term elections, Presidential temper tantrums…
Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination
Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…
Agriculture
Deconstructing the Administrative State
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“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA
Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…
Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story
OSHA proposed last week to roll back parts of the “Electronic Recordkeeping” regulation that the Obama administration issued in 2016.…
Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard
Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old California postal worker — and also a mother and grandmother — died last week while working…