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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -

Kentucky OSHA Adopts Emergency Regulation in Line With Fed’s New Rule on “Walkaround” Inspections: What Employers Need to Know and...

Fisher Phillips on 10/1/2024

Starting today, Kentucky employees may designate a third party – including union representatives in non-union facilities – to accompany safety inspectors during walkaround inspections. State safety officials adopted an...more

OSHA Officially Published Its Proposed Emergency Response Rule

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 2/19/2024

We hope you saw our post last week about OSHA’s new Emergency Response Rulemaking and the Rulemaking Coalition that Conn Maciel Carey LLP is organizing to work on this surprisingly onerous proposed rule....more

GAO Encourages OSHA to Take Action in Meat and Poultry Industry

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/18/2023

Recently, the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), which is a nonpartisan agency in the legislative branch, took on oversight of the executive branch agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In...more

Beltway Buzz - April 2022 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/25/2022

NLRB GC Pushes for Card Checks, Limits on Employer Speech. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo filed a brief in a case asking the Board to make dramatic changes to federal labor law. The...more

Five Things Employers Must Know About Their Workplaces, the Raging Covid-19 Pandemic and OSHA’s Emergency Rule Status

White and Williams LLP on 12/21/2021

1. On Friday, December 17, several states appealed the Sixth Circuit’s decision to vacate the stay on OSHA’s emergency mandatory vaccine rule (the Rule) for large employers with over 100 employees to the United States...more

Florida Issues Emergency Rules Implementing New COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Laws

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/8/2021

On December 3, 2021, the Florida Department of Legal Affairs of the state attorney general’s office issued an emergency rule establishing the procedure for private employer vaccination mandate complaints under section...more

Biden Issues Sweeping Measures, Including Vaccine or Test Mandate, as Part of New COVID-19 Action Plan, Part I: Private Employers

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 9/13/2021

On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a sweeping six-pronged plan aimed at addressing the nation’s most recent surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the formidable delta variant. As part of that plan, Biden declared...more

OSHA to Require Employers With 100+ Employees to Ensure Workers Are Vaccinated or Tested Weekly

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/10/2021

On September 9, 2021, the Biden administration announced a new plan to combat the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the United States. A critical component of that plan calls on the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health...more

Beltway Buzz - September 2021

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/7/2021

Joe Says “No.” Over the last several weeks, the Buzz has discussed congressional efforts to pass both a bipartisan “hard” infrastructure bill (this passed the U.S. Senate and is waiting in the U.S. House of Representatives),...more

Beltway Buzz - August 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/23/2021

Historic Federal Legislation on the Move. While the Buzz was out last week, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act by a bipartisan vote of 69 to 30. As the Buzz has discussed, the bill provides $1.2...more

Oregon OSHA Enacts Emergency Rules to Protect Workers From Extreme Heat

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/18/2021

On July 8, 2021, the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) adopted temporary rules to bolster worker protections from the hazards of high and extreme heat, including requirements to provide shade,...more

Oregon OSHA Issues Temporary Heat Standard

Littler on 7/12/2021

On July 8, 2021, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Oregon OSHA) adopted emergency Heat Illness Prevention rules to establish workplace heat safety requirements that apply when temperatures in a work area...more

North Carolina Evaluating Its Response to Federal OSHA's Emergency COVID-19 Rules

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 7/2/2021

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard for the health care industry takes effect July 6. However, states that enforce their own OSHA programs have different...more

Times are changing: MIOSHA rescinds COVID-19 Emergency Rules and Adopts Rules for Healthcare Workers

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/25/2021

On June 22, 2021, the Michigan Occupational and Health Administration (“MIOSHA”) announced that it was rescinding its COVID-19 Emergency Workplace Rules (the “Rules”), previously issued on May 24, 2021. However, MISOHA...more

OSHA Issues COVID-19 Workplace Safety Rule for Healthcare Employers

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/11/2021

On June 10, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released the first nationwide workplace safety rule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. OSHA’s guidance is only binding on healthcare employers....more

Workplace Law Lowdown | MIOSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Rules Extended

Bodman on 4/16/2021

Pursuant to a certification by Governor Whitmer, the Michigan Occupation Safety and Health Administration (“MIOSHA”) extended the COVID-19 Emergency Rules until October 14, 2021. These Emergency Rules were previously set to...more

MIOSHA COVID-19 Emergency Rules Extended Through October 14, 2021

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/14/2021

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a certificate of need authorizing an extension of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“MIOSHA”) COVID-19 Emergency Rules (the...more

Beltway Buzz - April 2021 #2

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/12/2021

Infrastructure Plan Scuttlebutt. With Congress not returning to Washington, D.C., until next week, the White House’s American Jobs Plan proposal is still driving much of the political discussion in town this week. Of course,...more

OSHA’s Virus Emergency Rule – Unintended Consequences?

Roetzel & Andress on 2/24/2021

Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider an Emergency Temporary Standard to address issues relative to the spread of the COVID-19 virus in...more

Cal/OSHA’s ETS Under Scrutiny: California Judge Hears Oral Argument to Enjoin Enforcement

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/3/2021

Following the implementation of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) on November 30, 2020, several employers and trade associations filed a...more

COVID-19: OSHA Workplace Safety Guidance and Forthcoming Rules and Enforcement

WilmerHale on 1/25/2021

On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (Order) directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to take “swift action to reduce the risk that...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order Promising Fast Movement by OSHA on COVID-19 - Can It Deliver?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/22/2021

On January 21, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued an executive order requiring the federal government to take “swift action” to protect U.S. workplaces from the COVID-19 pandemic. He ordered the U.S. Occupational...more

MIOSHA Increasing Enforcement of Remote Work Requirements under State Emphasis Program

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/16/2020

As COVID-19 diagnoses surge across Michigan, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“MIOSHA”) announced that enforcement of Emergency Rules on COVID-19 would be expanded and that increased emphasis would...more

Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration Adopts COVID-19 Emergency Rule

Littler on 10/16/2020

In the wake of the Michigan Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the law that served as the basis for Governor Whitmer’s emergency COVID-19 orders since April 30, 2020, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health...more

Oregon OSHA Releases Draft COVID-19 Temporary Standard

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/26/2020

On August 17, 2020, the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Oregon OSHA), the state plan responsible for overseeing workplace safety and health in the state of Oregon, released a draft COVID-19 temporary...more

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