A proposed California law, Senate Bill 1044, would greatly lower the threshold for employees to leave their workplace without discipline...

On February 11, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that an applicant’s Seizure Disorder (Epilepsy) would pose...

Mine operators are good at paying attention to data. Operators review their mine's tons or yards per shift, maintenance downtime, hours...

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on March 21, 2022, that it is launching a landmark proposal that would...

A new federal study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found a 25.5 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths in...

Employers who try to determine whether a worker should be classified as an “employee” or as an “independent contractor” have more changes...

Virginia’s Safety and Health Codes Board voted on March 21, 2022, to revoke the state OSHA agency’s COVID-19 standard covering all...

OSHA’s proposed rule modifying electronic recordkeeping requirements will appear in the 3/30/22 Federal Register, with a 60-day comment...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reopened the Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)/proposed rule for...

On March 2, the Biden Administration released a National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan, committing OSHA to update the Agency's COVID-19...

With an increase in fatalities and injuries in 2022, MSHA has announced a new safety campaign, titled, "Take Time, Save Lives." The...

More than 100 persons per year die in forklift accidents on the job, representing about a 30 percent increase over the past decade. ...

Even as OSHA works on updating its 2016 E-recordkeeping rule for the second time, the agency is also clarifying via two Letters of...

This time of year, there is a lot of MSHA annual refresher training occurring, especially in the colder regions of the country. As...

Courts have held that for OSHA to prove a violation of a general, or performance, standard, OSHA must show that the employer failed to...

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit considered the sufficiency of service of an OSHA citation and...

Thirty-five years ago, then-Supreme Court Justice White, writing a dissent to the Court’s denial of a petition for certiorari, described...

Adele Abrams speaks on foundational MSHA law, including MSHA/OSHA jurisdiction, citation basics, training, and recordkeeping. Take a...

The Supreme Court released a decision today granting a stay of OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS, meaning businesses will not...

OSHA Serious/OTS: increase from $13,653 to $14,502 Repeat/Willful: increase from $136,532 to $145,027 MSHA Regular Assessments now range...