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OSHA is urged to withdraw a recent letter of interpretation concerning non-union workplace inspections in this week’s OSHA Roundup, and more.

It’s a simple question, but unfortunately it may not have a simple answer: What is the role of workers’ compensation?

In this week’s OSHA Roundup, OSHA and the U.S. Postal Service come to an agreement while the agency clamps down on auto shop hazards in Pacific islands.

Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. Recently, a stakeholder questioned the response to deadly chemical explosions similar to what occurred at the fertilizer plant in West, TX.

CSB is an independent agency. That makes it, to a degree, answerable to no one. It’s free to investigate an incident without fear (in theory) of an oversight agency such as OSHA telling it what to do or what type of findings to release. This is good, obviously, but it goes both ways – CSB can’t force an agency to change.

OSHA turns its focus to the grain industry and isocyanate hazards in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

OSHA chief David Michaels describes changes to the Voluntary Protection Programs, acting secretary of labor tells a Senate committee why the administration’s proposed OSHA budget is necessary, and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

In this week’s OSHA Roundup, the agency proposes pushing back the compliance date for its Cranes and Derricks in Construction Standard and a fake OSHA inspector is sentenced to prison for scamming workers.