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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -

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

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 6/19/2025

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

Senate Bill 20: Continuing Developments in the Stone Fabrication Industry

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/18/2025

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

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

Polsinelli on 6/5/2025

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

Major Change in Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Scene Disturbance Law

Bennett Jones LLP on 5/27/2025

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

OSHA Issues Updated Guidance on Site-Specific Targeting Inspections

Littler on 5/22/2025

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

OSHA's New Reporting Requirement Goes Into Effect in 2024

FordHarrison on 12/28/2023

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

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

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 7/28/2023

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

The CSB Adopts Final Accidental-Release Reporting Regulations

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/25/2020

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) adopted regulations on February 21, 2020, under the Clean Air Act requiring the reporting of certain accidental releases. Their purpose is to enable the CSB to...more

Employment Law Update: South Carolina Lawmakers Ratify OSHA Requirements

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC on 7/22/2015

On June 26, 2015 the South Carolina General Assembly ratified the new OSHA reporting and recordkeeping requirements for SC employers....more

Tennessee OSHA Adopts new Federal Rules on Injury Reporting

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/23/2014

In a recent blog post, John Martin, a shareholder in Washington, D.C. and a member of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group, discussed the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA)...more

OSHA's Expanding Reach: New Record-Keeping Rules to Dramatically Increase the Number of Reportable Events

Miller & Martin PLLC on 9/23/2014

Until very recently, OSHA only required employers to notify it of work-related fatalities and incidents involving the in-patient hospitalization of three (3) or more employees. Employers were not required to report single...more

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