This program is unique as it is signed and authorized by the Directorate of Training and Education (OSHA). The target audience for this new certificate is individuals working in a local, state or ...

For decades, both industry authorities and government authorities have been in agreement with regard to the steps that a general contractor should take in order to ensure that work performed on their ...

For perspective on the relative magnitude of 99,000 HAI fatalities, consider these statistics on fatalities that generate many more headlines and much more public alarm. These sources represent 98,200 ...

On April 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published its Final Rule clarifying the rights of employees to designate a non-employee ...

It’s been a long time since OSHA has come under scrutiny. “With a leadership change, often long-standing regulatory agencies will change as well,” says Phillip Russell, partner at Ogletree Deakins, a ...

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will announce Thursday that it's going to crack down on hospitals, for the first time ever, to prevent an epidemic of back and arm ...

OSHA just proposed a new rule that would restrict its own ability to regulate inherently risky work, signaling a major shift in how the agency would apply the broad “General Duty Clause” in the sports ...

OSHA has announced 59 citations and nearly $1 million in penalties after an investigation into a nitrogen leak at a poultry processing plant that killed six workers and injured at least a dozen others ...