Articles by Kyle W. Morrison

OSHA responds to questions on enforcement, compliance assistance

Safety+Health’s December 2012 issue included an article listing OSHA’s Top 10 most frequently cited standards for the year and featuring an exclusive Q&A with Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs. We had additional questions for the agency on enforcement and compliance assistance but didn’t get a chance to run the responses in the December issue.
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2013 State of Safety

In S+H’s annual State of Safety feature, stakeholders discuss the correlation between the ongoing economic recovery and injury rates, and speculate on what may occur if the economy continues to pick up steam. Also, read about how some safety and health pros have changed their message to “sell” safety in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and how new data may help employers keep workers safer.
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Washington Update: The lost agenda

What is the White House currently working on, in terms of worker-safety regulation? Nearly a year has passed since the administration published its last Unified Agenda, which details all “economically significant” regulations currently under development or review, or expected to be addressed within 12 months of the agenda’s publication.
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