On March 18, OSHA introduced the OSHA Cares initiative. It's an agency-wide effort focused on helping businesses meet federal workplace safety requirements, OSHA Cares highlights the ways OSHA can ...

OSHA announced on March 16 that it is launching a Safety Champions Program. The agency describes the program as a "new ...

New agency-wide effort focuses on collaboration and compliance assistance to help employers meet federal workplace requirements.

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Making a Biden-era heat protection proposal more business friendly, a major priority for the Trump administration, will ...

OSHA issues new letters of interpretation to clarify how employers must apply key safety standards, from confined spaces to recordkeeping and audiometric testing. OSHA has issued seven new letters of ...

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Over the last week, emails purporting to be from OSHA carpet bombed inboxes. They told the recipient to prepare for a possible “compliance inspection” by clicking to read new OSHA guidelines. Don’t ...

When federal funding expired Oct. 1, the U.S. Dept. of Labor triggered its contingency plan, effectively halting most oversight functions at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The plan ...

The Department of Labor announced “updates to penalty guidelines” to improve worker safety on Monday that it said will support small businesses and eliminate workplace hazards. The announcement ...

A legal battle between the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office and California’s workplace safety agency has called into question the latter’s authority to investigate law enforcement, including potential ...