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Cal/OSHA Announces Civil Penalty Increases

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Cal/OSHA, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, effective January 1, 2024, increased penalties for certain violations to adjust for inflation and ensure consistency with California and federal law....more

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Frequently Asked Questions for Employers About OSHA (Updated for 2024)

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Even the most experienced employers are sure to have questions from time to time about the nation’s workplace safety agency – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That’s where we come in. The Fisher...more

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Title V Objection/Clean Air Act: Environmental Integrity Project Petition Addressing Jefferson County, Texas, Calcined Coke...

The Environmental Integrity Project and Port Arthur Community Action Network (collectively, “EIP”) filed a document before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator styled: Petition to...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Construction Employers: Beware the Ides of March

Construction continues to be one of the deadliest industries in the United States, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is heavily targeting construction workplaces. In 2022, OSHA inspected...more

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Revisiting Volks - Is OSHA Buying Itself More Time to Issue More Citations?

Recordkeeping under the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act is often top of mind for workplace safety professionals. Under the OSH Act, employers must record injuries and illnesses resulting in medical treatment beyond...more

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New OSHA Enforcement Guidance to Expand Issuance of Instance-By-Instance Citations

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New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement guidance set to take effect on March 27, 2023, will expand OSHA’s authority to issue instance-by-instance, or “IBI,” citations. Since 1990, OSHA has issued...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

OSHA Enforcement Guidance Could Subject Employers to More Citations

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can now issue separate citations for each instance of an alleged high-gravity serious violation. OSHA is also encouraged to issue multiple violations instead of...more

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OSHA Announces Significant Expansion of ‘Instance-by-Instance’ Citation Policy

Late on January 26, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a press release concerning a significant change in long-standing policy related to instance-by-instance issuance of citations that will...more

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Frequently Asked Questions for Employers About OSHA

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Even the most experienced employers are sure to have questions from time to time about the nation’s workplace safety agency – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That’s where we come in. The Fisher...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

OSHA Is Still Enforcing 4-Hour Rule For OSHA 300 Logs, But Reins In Area Offices On “Double Reporting”

With the number of on-site inspections and citations declining during the 2020 pandemic, it appeared that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration began issuing more citations for recordkeeping-related...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

Frequently Cited OSHA COVID-19 Violations And What Employers Can Do Differently

From the start of the Coronavirus pandemic through December 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued citations from 300 inspections for Coronavirus-related...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OSHA Releases COVID-19 Citation Statistics and Guidance for Respirator Fitting

Last Friday, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration released statistics on citations issued to employers for COVID-19 safety violations. OSHA has not issued a COVID-19 safety standard, and the citations...more

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OSHA’s Attempt to Expand Citation Statute of Limitations Thwarted by Congressional Review Act Senate Vote

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On March 22, 2017, the Senate, by a vote of 50-48, passed a House of Representatives’ resolution which overturned the OSHA Rule seeking to expand the statute of limitations period for citations it issues to employers. ...more

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OSHA Seeks Work-a-Round to Issuing Citations for Recordkeeping Violations More Than Six Months Old

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OSHA, through a rulemaking, is seeking to build a work-a-round to a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion on issuing citations for recordkeeping violations that are more than six months old. 80 Fed. Reg. 45116 (July 29,...more

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