May 28, 2020
As part of its on-going program to provide guidance to various industries that are continuing to work through the Coronavirus pandemic, OSHA this week established a single-source webpage with coronavirus-related guidance for the construction industry. The guidance includes recommended actions for both employers and employees to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus at the jobsite.
Throughout…
April 29, 2020
Localized outbreaks of COVID-19 have plagued large industrial employers. A special focus has been placed on meat processing facilities, as plants across the country have become hotspots due to close quarters working conditions and allegations of insufficient responses by management in excluding ill workers and providing well workers with appropriate personal protective equipment (“PPE”). These…
July 30, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 13
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On Monday, July 30, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to revise the Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illness rule. The proposed rule rescinds the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to…
February 28, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 5
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On February 21, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued guidance on Interim Enforcement Procedures for Failure to Submit Electronic Illness and Injury Records under 29 C.F.R. § 1904.41(a)(1) and (a)(2). Employer establishments subject to OSHA recordkeeping…
February 26, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 4
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Herb Gibson, Area Director for the Denver Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) office, spoke at the February meeting of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (“ASSE”). At that meeting, he listed the priorities for the Colorado OSHA offices for 2018,…
September 21, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 18
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
As we previously reported this week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is moving forward on the September 23, 2017 enforcement date for the Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1926.1153. We outlined the requirements of the standard earlier…
September 18, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 17
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On September 23, 2017, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) will begin enforcing its silica standard in the construction industry. The standard requires employers to limit worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica and take other steps to protect workers.
The standard…
August 13, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 14
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On June 27, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to December 1, 2017. OSHA delayed the rule…
July 24, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 13
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On July 10, 2017, the Trump administration released the 2017 Update to the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the “Agenda”). The Trump administration’s desire to reduce the regulatory load on both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and the Mine Safety…
June 27, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 12
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to December 1, 2017. If extended, employers would not have to…
May 17, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 10
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced that it intends to extend the July 1, 2017, deadline for employers to electronically submit their injury and illness records. The July deadline required certain employers to electronically submit their 2016 300A injury and…
April 6, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 7
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Earlier this week, President Donald J. Trump, signed the resolution which finalized the Congressional Review Act process to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) rule commonly known as the Volks Rule. Based on this resolution, OSHA is prohibited from issuing…
May 28, 2020
As part of its on-going program to provide guidance to various industries that are continuing to work through the Coronavirus pandemic, OSHA this week established a single-source webpage with coronavirus-related guidance for the construction industry. The guidance includes recommended actions for both employers and employees to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus at the jobsite.
Throughout…
April 29, 2020
Localized outbreaks of COVID-19 have plagued large industrial employers. A special focus has been placed on meat processing facilities, as plants across the country have become hotspots due to close quarters working conditions and allegations of insufficient responses by management in excluding ill workers and providing well workers with appropriate personal protective equipment (“PPE”). These…
July 30, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 13
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On Monday, July 30, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to revise the Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illness rule. The proposed rule rescinds the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to…
February 28, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 5
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On February 21, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued guidance on Interim Enforcement Procedures for Failure to Submit Electronic Illness and Injury Records under 29 C.F.R. § 1904.41(a)(1) and (a)(2). Employer establishments subject to OSHA recordkeeping…
February 26, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 4
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Herb Gibson, Area Director for the Denver Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) office, spoke at the February meeting of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (“ASSE”). At that meeting, he listed the priorities for the Colorado OSHA offices for 2018,…
September 21, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 18
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
As we previously reported this week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is moving forward on the September 23, 2017 enforcement date for the Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1926.1153. We outlined the requirements of the standard earlier…
September 18, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 17
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On September 23, 2017, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) will begin enforcing its silica standard in the construction industry. The standard requires employers to limit worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica and take other steps to protect workers.
The standard…
August 13, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 14
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On June 27, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to December 1, 2017. OSHA delayed the rule…
July 24, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 13
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On July 10, 2017, the Trump administration released the 2017 Update to the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the “Agenda”). The Trump administration’s desire to reduce the regulatory load on both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and the Mine Safety…
June 27, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 12
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to December 1, 2017. If extended, employers would not have to…
May 17, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 10
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) announced that it intends to extend the July 1, 2017, deadline for employers to electronically submit their injury and illness records. The July deadline required certain employers to electronically submit their 2016 300A injury and…
April 6, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 7
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Earlier this week, President Donald J. Trump, signed the resolution which finalized the Congressional Review Act process to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) rule commonly known as the Volks Rule. Based on this resolution, OSHA is prohibited from issuing…
