As 2026 gets underway, a construction injury lawyer argues that government benchmarks represent the bare minimum, not 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 ...

Rule changes in 2026, include heat illness prevention and silica exposure; early preparation can mitigate operational ...

WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the release of a final rule that streamlines and simplifies standards while reducing employer ...

A new Emergency Response Standard (ERS) has been proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to impose additional requirements on organizations with employees who respond to ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is moving ahead with a permanent standard to protect healthcare workers from exposure to COVID-19 on the job. The agency submitted a final rule to the ...

State and local officials are sounding alarms about the potential cost and feasibility of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s plan for a major overhaul of the standards that protect ...

The California Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board voted unanimously to approve a new indoor heat illness rule covering the vast majority of California employers. California ...

More than 70 percent of congressional offices have violated worker safety standards over the past year. While the majority of all lawmaker offices on Capitol Hill have at least one health or safety ...

Last week, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board approved an emergency temporary standard regarding respirable crystalline silica (RCS). The standard will take effect December 29, 2023. The emergency temporary ...