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OSHA issued a new recordkeeping rule and a draft of its strategic plan. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

“If you see something, say something.” That’s the message of a Department of Homeland Security’s public awareness campaign encouraging people to report suspicious behavior, and it could very well be the motto of workplace safety programs.

Days after the Chemical Safety Board called OSHA’s response to chemical safety recommendations “unacceptable,” a presidential order directs OSHA to review its standards. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

If you think OSHA penalties are too low, realize that they could be far lower, as is the case with our neighbors to the north.

Protecting workers can be a difficult task, but a workforce that changes and moves makes the job even harder. Unfortunately that is the challenge facing OSHA when it comes to temporary workers.

Congratulations to Senior Associate Editor Kyle W. Morrison, who has been recognized with a 2013 “Azbee” from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for his May 2012 article, “GHS is here.”

Of all the things leaders worry about, by far the most troubling is that an employee might suffer a serious injury or fatality (SIF).

More than 16 million people worked in the health care and social assistance industry in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That year, recordable injuries exceeded 631,000 and the rate was 5.0 per 100 full-time workers.

We usually hear about traumatic brain injuries occurring on the football field or the battlefield, but athletes and soldiers aren’t the only ones whose jobs may put them at risk for TBI.

Read about OSHA’s new health care musculoskeletal disorder campaign and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.