Manufacturers, Employer Liability Issues, Occupational Exposure

Six Sizzling Ways to Beat the OSHA Heat This Summer

Baker Donelson on 6/28/2024

The summer heat is in full swing and so are ramped-up compliance efforts from OSHA. This alert provides you with six quick tips to help avoid and minimize any "heat" from OSHA this summer....more

2020 Environmental, Health & Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog on 1/10/2020

Welcome to 2020! As always, we at the Manufacturing Law Blog are starting the year with our annual forecasts of hot topics....more

OSHA Updates National Emphasis Program on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/3/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA recently updated its National Emphasis Program on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries (NEP), adding a targeting methodology for industries with high employer-reported amputation statistics....more

Beryllium: March 2nd OSHA Memorandum Delaying Enforcement of Certain Standards

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/9/2018

United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Director, Directorate of Enforcement Programs, Thomas Galassi, authored a March 2nd memorandum titled: Delay of Enforcement of the Beryllium Standards...more

OSHA Delays Enforcement Of Beryllium Standard Until May

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/8/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it is pushing back the effective date of parts of the rule limiting workers’ exposure to beryllium until May, while it negotiates with...more

OSHA Announces Long-Awaited Final Rule to Limit Employee Exposure to Silica and Adopts New Standards That Are "Among the Broadest...

BakerHostetler on 3/31/2016

On March 24, 2016, after a 45-year effort, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a final rule intended to limit workers’ exposure to respirable crystalline silica, a carcinogenic dust pervasive in...more