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The Chemical Safety Board recently approved the launch of its Most Wanted Chemical Safety Improvements Program, with promulgation of a combustible dust standard as its first “most wanted” item. So what’s next?

The Department of Labor gets a new secretary and releases its semiannual regulatory agenda. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

This summer is shaping up to be a busy one for OSHA, which has gone public with its intention to move forward on several proposed and final rules.

I’m grateful to work the day shift. I never gave my work schedule much thought until I started working at Safety+Health and reading study after study about possible health risks associated with shift work.

One of the larger omissions in the Occupational Safety and Health Act is that the law doesn’t extend to state or local governments, meaning public employees don’t have the same protection guarantees as those in private industry.

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?

If you think about it, research is only as good as the data behind it. And a recent study from NIOSH raises questions about the accuracy of occupational injury and illness data based on emergency department records.

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.

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.