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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 -

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

Navigating the New MSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Regulations: Key Requirements and Compliance Strategies

J.S. Held on 8/8/2024

Introduction: Understanding the New Regulations on Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a human carcinogen. ...more

What Construction Employers Need to Know About the Increased Silica Compliance Focus

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/30/2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Denver Regional Office has announced the rollout of a “Regional Emphasis Program” dedicated to the reduction of incidents of workplace illness related to silica....more

OSHA’s Enforcement of the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard for General Industry, 2018–2019: By the Numbers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/10/2020

For employers concerned about how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been enforcing its Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard for General Industry, the agency’s enforcement data for the standard’s...more

Day One at the ABA Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/5/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth Shaw’s OSHA/MSHA group is at the ABA’s Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting this week. Today, we heard some introductory remarks from the Solicitor of Labor, a panel who...more

OSHA Enforcement for Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard, 2018-2019: By the Numbers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/2/2020

For construction employers anxious over how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and state plan states are enforcing the Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard, the last two calendar years...more

OSHA Moves To Potentially Adjust Silica Rule

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/8/2019

Last week, OSHA began a potential rulemaking process to expand what some might consider exceptions to the 2016 silica rule in construction. Here’s what we know… On July 29th, OSHA submitted to the Office of Information...more

OSHA Takes Steps To Revise Silica Standard For Construction

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 8/5/2019

On July 29th OSHA submitted a draft Request for Information (RFI) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding Table 1 in OSHA’s construction standard for silica. If approved by OMB, OSHA intends to issue the RFI in...more

Update from the 2019 ABA Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/7/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth Shaw’s OSHA/MSHA group is at the ABA’s Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting this week....more

OSHA Issues FAQs For General Industry For Crystalline Silica Standard

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/12/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has recently issued a Frequently Asked Questions for General Industry for the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard. We had noted previously in the blog that most of the provisions of the...more

OSHA Issues Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Respirable Crystalline Silica for General Industry

Littler on 1/23/2019

On January 22, 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to provide guidance to general industry employers on OSHA’s final rule regulating occupational exposure...more

Enforcement of OSHA’s Silica Standards in Full Swing

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 10/4/2018

In March 2016, OSHA published its standards for respirable crystalline silica in general industry/maritime (29 C.F.R. § 1910.1053) and in construction (§ 1926.1153), both of which have been phased in. ...more

OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard For Construction FAQs

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 8/28/2018

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released a set of 53 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to provide guidance to employers and employees regarding OSHA’s respirable crystalline silica standard for...more

Expansion of OSHA's Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard

Poyner Spruill LLP on 8/10/2018

Workers who are exposed to respirable crystalline silica (breathable silica dust) are at an increased risk for developing lung cancer, silicosis, incurable lung disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Crystalline...more

Tightening Silica Exposure Standards

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/12/2018

On June 23, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) implemented one of the final legs of a new rule limiting worker exposure to crystalline silica (or simply “silica”). ...more

OSHA to Begin Enforcement of Crystalline Silica Standard on June 23, 2018

BakerHostetler on 6/22/2018

On June 23, 2018, the Department of Labor will begin enforcing a new crystalline silica standard that was originally proposed on June 23, 2016. Construction employers have been required to comply with the crystalline silica...more

OSHA Silica Rule Takes Effect This Week With 30-Day Grace Period

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/21/2018

OSHA’s new final silica rule that dramatically reduces allowable exposures to respirable crystalline silica takes effect this week for most employers. In particular, the rule kicks in on June 23, 2018 for employers in general...more

OSHA Enforcement Memo for Crystalline Silica Standard in General Industry and Maritime

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/18/2018

OSHA has just released a Memorandum on the Enforcement Launch for the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard in General Industry and Maritime rules....more

OSHA Issues Silica Enforcement Memo

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/15/2018

The silica standard for construction came into effect last year, on September 23, 2017, whereas most provisions of the silica rule as it pertains to general industry and maritime (29 CFR § 1910.1053) take effect this month,...more

New Silica Exposure Standards Take Effect June 23

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/7/2018

In 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced new respiratory silica exposure levels that lowered the action level for exposure to 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The maximum permissible exposure...more

The First Six Months: How OSHA Is Currently Enforcing the Silica Standard in Construction

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/4/2018

For construction employers facing uncertainty on exactly how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is enforcing the new silica standard in Construction, we now have a little bit of data that helps shed some...more

Worried About OSHA Silica Compliance? Not if You’re in One of These Five States

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/17/2018

With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) silica standard already in effect for the construction industry and about to go into effect in June of 2018 for general industry, many employers are anxious...more

ICYMI: Federal Appeals Court Upholds New OSHA Silica Rule

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC on 3/16/2018

A recent federal appeals court decision rejected a challenge to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s new rule for respirable crystalline silica (silica) exposure in the construction industry (the Silica Rule),...more

Is OSHA’s New Silica Rule Dust in the Wind? Likely Not. Court Rejects Several Challenges to the New Standard

Fisher Phillips on 2/14/2018

Nearly 2.3 million people in the United States work in jobs that expose them to silica. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) claims that more than 100,000 of those workers are engaged in “high risk jobs such...more

DC Circuit Upholds the New OSHA Silica Rule But Remands Medical Removal Protection Standard Issue

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 1/15/2018

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a unanimous opinion upholding most of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) 2016 revised workplace standard for...more

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