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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 Issues NPRMs Affecting 26 Standards, Proposes Key Changes for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/9/2025

On July 1, 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) related to twenty-six current standards. ...more

State Officials Voice Support for OSHA’s Proposed Recordkeeping Rule – And Call for It to Go Even Further

Fisher Phillips on 6/28/2022

A coalition of state Attorneys General, led by New Jersey’s acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin, just submitted a letter to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh not only supporting OSHA’s proposed injury and illness reporting rule...more

OSHA Issues Emergency Vaccine Mandate for Employers With 100+ Employees

Fox Rothschild LLP on 11/5/2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) mandating that all employers with 100 or more employees must require COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing by January 4,...more

What You Need To Know About Kentucky OSHA’s Proposed Injury and Illness Reporting Rule Change

Fisher Phillips on 4/24/2020

The Kentucky Labor Cabinet’s Department of Workplace Standards released its proposed amendments to its injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements on February 11, 2020. A public hearing on these amendments...more

A 2019 L&E Forecast for In-House Counsel, Part I: A Workplace Safety Issue on the Horizon

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/19/2018

In 2019, general counsels can expect the debate to rage on over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposal to rescind the requirement that large employers electronically submit information from OSHA...more

It’s Time to Comment on OSHA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Burr & Forman on 8/15/2018

In May 2016, OSHA published a final rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, which requires certain employers to, among other things, electronically submit injury and illness data to OSHA on an annual...more

OSHA Seeks to Extend Deadline for Citations Against Employers for Recordkeeping Violations

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 8/24/2015

Once the Occupational Safety and Health Administration opens an investigation of an employer, it has six months to complete the investigation and issue citations. In 2012, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that...more

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