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Washington Update: Ensuring safety education and research

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 22 May 2016 05:00:00 +0000

The White House fiscal year 2017 budget request seeks to eliminate funding for 18 NIOSH Education and Research Centers as well as the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program, claiming the programs have outlived their usefulness. But supporters of the program are speaking out.

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Washington Update: The ‘stumbling block’ of rulemaking reviews

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 05:03:00 +0000

Almost every OSHA rule is reviewed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget before being promulgated. Why do those reviews often take so much longer than the 90 days they are supposed to take?

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Washington Update: The final Obama budget: OSHA takes aim at congressional criticism

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 05:03:00 +0000

OSHA goes into an unusual amount of detail as it seeks to justify its direction and agenda in its final budget request of President Barack Obama’s administration.

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Washington Update: The same old debate

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:03:00 +0000

In a recent congressional subcommittee hearing, lawmakers once again debated the effect of regulation on the economy. But is pitting regulation against economic growth a “false choice,” as one lawmaker suggests?

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Washington Update: Tree care industry says standard will help relieve ‘patchwork’ regulation

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 06:02:00 +0000

A standard for tree care workers is back on OSHA’s regulatory agenda – and some in the industry couldn’t be happier.

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Washington Update: Higher fines, safer workers? OSHA-watchers weigh in

Kyle W. Morrison — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:00:00 +0000

For the first time in a quarter century, OSHA will increase its maximum penalty amounts. One stakeholder calls the change “long overdue,” while another claims it “seems like it fixes a problem that doesn’t exist.”

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Washington Update: The weight of OSHA inspections

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 06:03:00 +0000

Who’s keeping track of the number of inspections OSHA conducts each year? Not OSHA – not anymore.

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Washington Update: ‘Ineffective’ or ‘crucial’? Susan Harwood Training Grants under debate

S+H Staff — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 05:03:00 +0000

For nearly 40 years, Susan Harwood Training Grant Program funds have helped educate more than 2 million employees on workplace hazard recognition, avoidance and prevention.

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Washington Update: The recordkeeping workaround

Kyle W. Morrison — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 05:03:00 +0000

Three years ago, a court handed down a decision that restricted OSHA’s ability to cite employers for recordkeeping violations. Now the agency is hoping to work around that decision through a new proposed rule.

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Washington Update: Delay or due diligence?

S+H Staff — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 05:00:00 +0000

OSHA is relying on decades-old information to promulgate its silica rule – or so the argument goes.

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