Employer Liability Issues, Workplace Injury, Proposed Rules

Nominee for OSHA Chief David Keeling Testifies Before Senate Committee, Outlines Workplace Safety Priorities and Workplace...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/11/2025

On Thursday, June 5, 2025, OSHA Nominee David Keeling testified that he plans to adopt a more cooperative, proactive approach and pursue a new workplace violence regulation....more

Safety Issues in the Spotlight: Recent Updates from OSHA

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/5/2023

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing a number of new rules that all employers need to track and to be prepared to respond. Here is an update on four significant topics making their way through...more

OSHA Issues Proposed Rule on Improved Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

Littler on 4/5/2022

Under current OSHA regulations, establishments with 250 or more employees in industries that are required to keep their OSHA injury and illness records must submit information from the Form 300A Injury and Illness Log...more

OSHA Pulls Back on Electronic Reporting Rule

Ruder Ware on 2/1/2019

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has partly pulled back on its controversial requirement that certain employers electronically file injury and illness data with OSHA. Last week, OSHA announced that...more

OSHA Has a “Naughty” List – And Nearly One-Third of Large Employers Are on It. Are You?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/27/2018

OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) issued its electronic injury reporting rule in May, 2016. When issued, OSHA had intended all employers (over time) to submit their injury and illness records (OSHA Form...more

Cal/OSHA Approves Hotel Housekeeping Injury Standard – Likely to Go Into Effect Later This Year

Fisher Phillips on 1/22/2018

After nearly six years of discussion and debate, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board (Board) yesterday approved a standard on “Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention.”...more