The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) short- and long-term regulatory agendas remain busy as we close out 2019 and enter 2020. The regulatory agenda is published twice a year and ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's whistleblower protection program still doesn't meet minimum performance standards, according to a new report. In an audit released last week, the ...

The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health could lose its authority to regulate residential construction work if it does not strengthen its fall protection rules. In a March 19 letter to ...

Fall protection standards are tightening for homebuilders nationwide, and Minnesota is enforcing greater compliance before the national deadline. According to a top safety publishing executive, the ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Limon Masonry Inc. in Pharr, Texas, for failing to protect employees from fall hazards on scaffolds. The company received citations for ...

After federal workplace safety officials withdrew the emergency temporary standard that would have forced larger employers to either mandate COVID-19 vaccinations or require each unvaccinated worker ...

More than a year into the pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is now considering a slate of safety requirements to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in workplaces across the ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has long been the regulatory backbone for workplace safety in the United States, setting and enforcing standards to protect employees from ...

Michael A. Silverstein, a former director of policy for OSHA and a former director of the Washington State OSHA program, is a clinical professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the ...

Juergen Jung is an assistant professor of economics at Towson University. Michael Makowsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Center for Advanced Modeling at ...