The agency’s exposure limits were established in 1984 when no one knew the extent of the danger caused by EtO exposure ...

John Henshaw didn’t know the legacy he would create in 2001, when he helped oversee the government response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Then the head of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an effort to significantly increase the number of citations and penalties it may issue during an inspection, OSHA has updated its enforcement procedures for inspections to permit ...

OSHA released a proposed rule on its worker walkaround representative policy that would allow a third-party employee representative to be present during Compliance Safety and Health Officer ...

A new OSHA policy has gone into effect expanding penalties for instance-by-instance (IBI) citations. The move has the potential to significantly increase the monetary penalty amounts associated with ...

BISMARCK – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, along with Sen. Deb Fisher of Nebraska, have introduced a bipartisan bill called the Fertilizer Access and Responsible Management (FARM) Act that would force the ...

For the second year in a row, fatal occupational injuries rose in 2004: Such injuries killed 5,703 workers last year, 128 more than the year before, according to a report recently released by the ...

A federal commission has relieved general contractors of liability in many cases where subcontractors fail to comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards, effectively ...