The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reopened the Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)/proposed rule for...

On March 2, the Biden Administration released a National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan, committing OSHA to update the Agency's COVID-19...

With an increase in fatalities and injuries in 2022, MSHA has announced a new safety campaign, titled, "Take Time, Save Lives." The...

More than 100 persons per year die in forklift accidents on the job, representing about a 30 percent increase over the past decade. ...

Even as OSHA works on updating its 2016 E-recordkeeping rule for the second time, the agency is also clarifying via two Letters of...

This time of year, there is a lot of MSHA annual refresher training occurring, especially in the colder regions of the country. As...

Courts have held that for OSHA to prove a violation of a general, or performance, standard, OSHA must show that the employer failed to...

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit considered the sufficiency of service of an OSHA citation and...

Thirty-five years ago, then-Supreme Court Justice White, writing a dissent to the Court’s denial of a petition for certiorari, described...

Adele Abrams speaks on foundational MSHA law, including MSHA/OSHA jurisdiction, citation basics, training, and recordkeeping. Take a...

The Supreme Court released a decision today granting a stay of OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS, meaning businesses will not...

OSHA Serious/OTS: increase from $13,653 to $14,502 Repeat/Willful: increase from $136,532 to $145,027 MSHA Regular Assessments now range...

As of today, OSHA's ETS for COVID-19 Vax/Test is partially in effect. It could still be stayed or invalidated by SCOTUS, but as of now...

In a December 16, 2021 Letter of Interpretation, OSHA clarified that loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) are a...

On December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a decision lifting the stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary...

On December 14, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued clarifying guidance on which “Long COVID” symptoms afford...

MSHA held its quarterly stakeholder meeting on December 14, 2021 and reported that there have been 37 fatalities year to date versus 29...

GOP opposition to OSHA’s emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 and other enforcement initiatives triggered responses from some...

Rule 8 (c) of the OSH Review Commission’s Rules of Procedure requires the parties in a case before the Commission to file documents...

On the latest edition of the Safety Justice League Podcast, Adele Abrams dropped in to discuss how reasonable suspicion for drug testing...