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OSHA’s Updated Inspection Program: What Employers Should Know and Expect

On May 20, 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated its Site-Specific Targeting (SST) inspection program. The SST inspection program is OSHA’s primary planned inspection initiative for...more

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Senate Bill 20: Continuing Developments in the Stone Fabrication Industry

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On December 29, 2023, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board instituted an emergency regulation to address occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. This regulation addressed additional...more

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Cal/OSHA Proposes Revisions to Workplace Violence Prevention Regulation

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On May 13, 2025, Cal/OSHA issued a new draft of its proposed Workplace Violence Prevention in General Industry regulation, which updates its previously issued July 15, 2024 version. This May 2025 version incorporates advisory...more

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Understanding OSHA's Updated Site-Specific Targeting (SST) Inspection Plan

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What You Need to Know: OSHA’s Updated SST Plan Targets High-Risk Workplaces Using New Data: The revised Site-Specific Targeting (SST) Inspection Plan now relies on injury data from OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application...more

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NYSDOL’s Model Guidance for Workplace Safety + Violence Prevention Gives Retailers a Starting Point

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The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has launched the much anticipated guidance website on the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (RWSA). The guidance answers retail employers’ questions regarding implementation of...more

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Major Change in Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Scene Disturbance Law

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In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in April 2025, the Government of Alberta issued a Director Order that significantly altered the legal landscape concerning work site incident scene disturbances. In essence, we have...more

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OSHA Issues Updated Guidance on Site-Specific Targeting Inspections

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On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a press release updating the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Site-Specific Targeting (SST) inspection program focusing on workplaces with the highest...more

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OSHA's New Reporting Requirement Goes Into Effect in 2024

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Executive Summary: Beginning in January 2024, employers in certain high-hazard industries will be required to submit detailed information regarding recordable workplace injuries and illnesses using OSHA’s new filing system...more

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Hazard Alert! Don’t Ignore OSHA’s Updated Electronic Submission Requirements for Employers

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Effective January 1, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) new record-keeping rule will now require employers with 100 or more workers in OSHA’s “highest hazard” industries to electronically file...more

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Law Requiring all Massachusetts Employers to Provide COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave Signed by Gov. Baker, Effective...

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Effective immediately, Massachusetts employers must furnish up to 40 hours of COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave (“COVID Leave”) to their employees, to be made available either through September 30, 2021, or until the...more

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Cal/OSHA News and Reminders

Here are a few of the recent developments affecting workplace safety and health law in California. Updated Life Ring and Personal Flotation Device Regulation for Marine Terminals - In November 2018, the Occupational...more

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Australia Updates Catastrophic Injury Regulations, Affecting Workers’ Compensation Procedures

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In an important update to Australia’s safety laws, the federal government has introduced a definition of “catastrophic injury” in the new Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Catastrophic Injury) Rules 2018 (Rules). ...more

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Update - Cal/OSHA Hotel Housekeeping Injury Standard Effective July 1, 2018

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As we reported in January, after nearly six years of discussion and debate, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board (Board) approved a standard on “Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention.” The final regulation was recently...more

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