The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is publishing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for heat injury and illness prevention. Currently, OSHA does not have a specific standard for hazardous heat conditions and this action begins …
The U.S. Senate has approved Douglas Parker, former California workplace safety chief, as assistant secretary of labor at the Labor Department and the new head of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The Senate vote was 50-41 to confirm …
To reduce employee exposure to health hazards and encourage companies to make workplace safety and health a priority, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regional office in Kansas City has established a Regional Emphasis Program targeting …
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Tampa battery recycling center and smelter almost $320,000 for exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic, despite being warned about its practices last year, OSHA announced. Envirofocus …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat after a dangerously hot summer that spurred an onslaught of drought-worsened wildfires and caused hundreds of deaths from the Pacific Northwest to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. …
In Connecticut, a tree branch contacted a live high-voltage power line as a worker in an aerial lift cut it, electrocuting him. In Massachusetts, a falling tree branch struck and killed a worker cutting down oak trees, while a falling …
Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a liquid nitrogen leak in January that killed six workers at a northeast Georgia poultry processing plant. U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced the citations …
Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday pressed a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James claiming the online retailer failed to ensure worker safety at two New York City warehouses as COVID-19 infections surged. James sued …
A farm and a labor contractor under investigation by Oregon’s workplace safety agency after the death of a farmworker Saturday were both previously cited for workplace violations. The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health division, known as Oregon OSHA, has opened …
OSHA has cited a Missouri grain-handling facility for one willful and six serious safety violations, and proposed penalties of $215,525. The safety agency said that if MFA Enterprises Inc. – operating as West Central Agri Services – had addressed potential …
