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OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations: Understanding the Fine Print
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
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
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
Key Takeaways - The NY Workers’ Compensation Board has announced new Medical Treatment Guidelines—including new Guidelines covering Complex Regional Pain Syndrome—become effective on May 2, 2022. The extensive...more
Key Takeaways - The NY Workers’ Compensation Board has announced that new Medical Treatment Guidelines—including new Guidelines covering Eye Disorders—become effective on May 2, 2022. The extensive Eye Disorder...more
Key Takeaways - The NY Workers’ Compensation Board has announced that the new medical treatment guidelines—including new guidelines covering Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—become effective on May 2, 2022. The guidelines...more
On July 9, 2021, Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries filed an emergency rule to increase protection for employees exposed to extreme heat at work. This includes employees working in agriculture, construction, and...more
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
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
The Texas Supreme Court’s recent decision in Los Compadres Pescadores, L.L.C. v. Valdez provides new guidance regarding a commercial property owner’s protections against liability for injuries occurring on construction sites....more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring. This week’s post includes: a decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice addressing a...more