On Safety

The Center for Public Integrity recently was honored with its first Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the scourge of black lung disease in miners. And just this week, steps were taken to end the deadly disease.

Indiana’s OSHA program responds to the results of a federal investigation into the state program, and federal OSHA takes an important step to update its permissible exposure limits. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. Today, a State Plan state official criticizes federal OSHA’s recent investigation of the state agency.

While working on an article about New York state’s ‘Scaffold Law’, an interesting question popped up: Should employers face increased liability for workplace injuries and illnesses?

A final rule from OSHA that would revise the agency’s recordkeeping requirements draws objections from one stakeholder group. Read about this story and the latest OSHA fines in today’s OSHA Roundup.

By now, many people have likely seen the viral video of the “redneck road rage” truck driver who received “instant karma.” But he wasn’t the only person in the wrong.

OSHA issues a final rule on electrical safety, and stakeholders are hoping the agency maintains current Process Safety Management exemptions. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Just how much money is the Department of Labor requesting for fiscal year 2015? Enough to make a pharaoh or two happy.

Read about what Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez had to say about OSHA at a recent budget hearing, as well as a summary of the agency’s ongoing hearings for its proposed Silica Standard, in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

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