Kyle W. Morrison

OSHA unveils its regulatory plan and intentions to issue new rules by year’s end. Learn what regulations the agency is pursuing in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

From almost the moment he took the reins at OSHA, administrator David Michaels has called an Injury and Illness Prevention Program Standard his “No. 1 priority.” But the recently released Department of Labor regulatory agenda suggests that is no longer the case.

Will another state create its own occupational safety and health program? Kansas mulls its options. Read about this story and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Various studies have shown that investing money in workplace safety improvements will result in greater savings down the line. Safety+Health looks at where injury costs come from.

For nearly three weeks, OSHA listened to stakeholders’ concerns and input during a series of hearings on the agency’s proposed crystalline silica rule. The end result, the agency hopes, is a final rule that better protects workers from the potentially deadly dust.

Would you pay for something that’s available for free? Some people in the safety community do, and it could be the result of a scam.

OSHA requires State Plan programs to be “at least as effective” as federal OSHA. Recently, one state allegedly failed to meet that criterion, and it raises an important question that – shockingly – still has no good answer: What is OSHA’s definition of “effectiveness”?

Is Arizona’s State Plan program meeting federal standards? The state responds to federal OSHA threatening to take over construction safety oversight. Read about this story and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Sean Barrett was a terrazzo worker for 20 years before silica dust took the wind out of his lungs and sidelined him.

Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. In today’s post, OSHA administrator David Michaels explains why certain legislative changes need to be made to his agency’s whistleblower statute.