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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 -

Workplace Safety Officials Provide New Guidance on When You Must Report Musculoskeletal Injuries

Fisher Phillips on 7/2/2024

When are employee musculoskeletal illnesses and injuries required to be recorded and reported to federal workplace safety officials? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released a new memorandum...more

OSHA Issues CSHO Recordkeeping Guidance on Certain Musculoskeletal Treatments During Working Hours

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/17/2024

On May 2, 2024, OSHA issued recordkeeping guidance that provides guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) when the treatment given is first aid, Active Release Techniques (ART), and/or exercises and...more

OSHA Serves Up a Slice of Confusion: Can an Employer’s Pizza Party Workplace Safety Incentive Program Be ‘Unreasonable’?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/8/2023

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently posted a tweet with the following question: “Is your pizza party incentive program unreasonable?” Setting aside the frontal attack on arguably one of the most...more

OSHA Issues Enforcement Guidance For Electronic Recordkeeping Rule And Promises Aggressive Enforcement

Cozen O'Connor on 6/4/2021

As discussed in a previous blog, covered employers were required to electronically submit 300A data for the calendar year 2020 between January 2, 2021, through March 2, 2021. In a recent standard interpretation dated May 6,...more

Workplace Law Lowdown | Recording Adverse Employee Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccines

Bodman on 4/29/2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has issued guidance on when an employer must record an employee’s adverse COVID-19 vaccine reaction in its OSHA 300 Log....more

OSHA Releases National Emphasis Program Protecting High-Risk Workers

Littler on 3/15/2021

In response to President Biden’s January 2021 executive order, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a National Emphasis Program (NEP) on March 12, 2021, targeting...more

Managing Workplace Safety in the COVID-19 Era

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/25/2021

The workplace safety framework in the United States is difficult to navigate at its best. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 global health emergency, employers have faced increasingly complex challenges involving...more

OSHA’s New Guidance on COVID-19 Reporting Obligations

Snell & Wilmer on 10/26/2020

The construction industry is no stranger to reporting regulations when it comes to work-related injuries. Under the general rule, employers must report work-related in-patient hospitalizations that occur within 24 hours of...more

OSHA Revises Guidance Regarding COVID-19 Reporting Obligations – Yet Again

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/6/2020

It is no secret that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has had difficulty in consistently issuing guidance regarding COVID-19. For instance, back in May, as we reported at the time, OSHA issued revised...more

U.S. Department of Labor Releases New Guidance on Recordkeeping Obligations for COVID-19

Harris Beach PLLC on 4/17/2020

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released new guidance for employers on Friday, April, 10, 2020. The guidance offers helpful clarifications and scales back enforcement of...more

OSHA Withdraws Guidance on Accident Avoidance Incentives and Post-Accident Drug Testing

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 12/5/2018

During the Obama presidency, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued interpretation memoranda that called into question the legality of common employer programs intended to reduce accident rates. This...more

OSHA 180°? Agency Clarifies its Position on Workplace Safety Incentive Programs and Drug Testing Policies

Bowditch & Dewey on 11/19/2018

The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) recently issued a Standard Interpretation memorandum (the “New Guidance”) to clarify the agency’s position on whether workplace safety incentive programs and...more

OSHA Clarifies Position on Safety Incentive Programs and Post-Incident Drug Testing

Stinson LLP on 10/22/2018

On October 11, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a memorandum entitled Clarification of OSHA's Position on Workplace Safety Incentive Programs and Post-Incident Drug Testing Under 29 C.F.R....more

About Face: OSHA Clarifies that Safety-Incentive Programs and Post-Incident Drug/Alcohol Testing ARE Permissible

Littler on 10/22/2018

On October 11, 2018, in an about-face on prior guidance, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a significant Standard Interpretation Memorandum regarding safety-incentive programs and post-incident...more

Is OSHA Backtracking on the Anti-Retaliation Provisions in the Recordkeeping Regulation?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/17/2018

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) added an anti-retaliation provision to the recordkeeping regulation finalized in May 2016, and it seems as if the workplace safety and health community has not stopped...more

Dig This! OSHA Renews Its Focus on Trenching and Excavation

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/12/2018

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officially kicked off its National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Trenching and Excavation on October 1, 2018. With the NEP comes enhanced enforcement, education, and a new...more

State Plans Must Abide: Fed-OSHA Fixes Alleged “Error” and Mandates Electronic Reporting of Injuries and Illnesses in All State...

Fisher Phillips on 5/1/2018

On April 30, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Fed-OSHA) reversed course and issued a press release announcing that employers in all state-plan states must implement Fed-OSHA’s new electronic recordkeeping...more

Web Exclusive: March 2018: The Top 13 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 4/10/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first three months...more

Guidance on Protecting Employees During Hurricane Harvey and Especially In Cleanup.

Fisher Phillips on 8/29/2017

Despite the constant news coverage, Americans are inevitably surprised by the violence of hurricanes … and even more by the damages inflicted by storm surges and the extraordinary amounts of rain once the hurricane high winds...more

OSHA Issues Awaited Guidance Concerning Injury Reporting and Anti-Relation Obligations, Yet Leaves Unanswered Questions for...

BCLP on 11/10/2016

For many years the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has expressed significant concerns regarding its belief that regulated employers have been underreporting employee injuries or illnesses to OSHA and even...more

OSHA Issues “Guidance” on New Anti-Retaliation Rules – Is Employee Drug Testing Now Off The Table?

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 10/25/2016

On October 19, 2016, OSHA issued guidance with respect to certain controversial provisions of its new anti-retaliation rules, originally published on May 12, 2016. As we have previously discussed, OSHA’s new rules prohibit...more

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