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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 Heat Illness Rulemaking – Hearing Recap

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 7/25/2025

OSHA held its public rulemaking hearing on the proposed Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings standard from June 16 through July 2, 2025. Below is a summary of the hearing and a brief...more

New Year, New...Laws

Bricker Graydon LLP on 1/18/2024

With the turn of the new year, your newly invigorated gym plans and salads every night are not the only changes from 2023. Federal and Ohio law are already making “New year, New me” changes. Some changes are here to stay...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

OSHA Requesting Public Comment on Powered Industrial Truck Standards

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 4/8/2019

OSHA recently announced that it is considering whether it should revise the powered industrial trucks standards for general, construction, and maritime industries. Powered industrial trucks include forklifts, fork trucks,...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

New Interim Rules Impose 78% Increase in Maximum Monetary Penalties Under OSHA

Williams Mullen on 7/8/2016

On June 30, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the implementation of two interim final rules that will increase penalties under various federal statutes, including the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OSHA”). ...more

OSHA Bulletin: OSHA Extends Comment Period for Updated Safety and Health Management Guidelines

Adams and Reese LLP on 2/16/2016

On February 1, 2016, the United States Department of Labor – OSHA announced it is extending the public comment period on an updated version of its voluntary Safety and Health Management Guidelines. The current comment period...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

OSHA Proposes Rule Clarifying Record Retention Requirements for Injury and Illness Logs

Smith Anderson on 8/21/2015

One of the questions often asked by employers is “how long do I have to keep a given record?” Record retention requirements vary from law to law and many companies struggle with the question of how long to keep certain...more

OSHA Proposes New Rules to “Clarify” Recordkeeping Obligations

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/3/2015

On July 29, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule to “clarify” employers’ recordkeeping obligations under 29 C.F.R. Part 1904. Comments are due by September...more

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