Litigation involving Amazon and the Office of the Attorney General of New York is highlighting issues and questions about the scope of...

Under section 10 of the OSH Act, an employer has only 15 working days to contest a citation and proposed penalty from OSHA. If the Notice...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on January 28, 2021 the establishment of a Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section...

Virginia has implemented a Permanent Safety and Health Standard requiring employers to control, prevent, and mitigate the spread of...

It is axiomatic that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is the agency chiefly responsible...

Following a directive from President Biden, OSHA released updated guidance and recommendations for employers responding to COVID-19. This...

On January 21, 2021, the Federal Mine Safety and Review Commission affirmed ALJ Margaret Miller’s determination that a citation and an...

With vaccines for COVID-19 rolling Adele Abrams addresses the questions or concerns EHS professionals might have about complying with...

The Biden transition team has released a list of agency actions that the heads of each agency will review in the coming weeks. The list...

On January 8, CalOSHA issued a list of frequently asked questions clarifying their November 30, 2020 COVID-19 Emergency Temporary...

MSHA held its quarterly Stakeholder Meeting on December 17, 2020 and went through the familiar agenda. Notable achievements in 2020...

OSHA & MSHA have announced new penalties, with the increase effective January 15, 2021, for penalties assessed on that date or later...

Politico White House correspondent Tyler Pager reported today that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will serve as the Secretary of Labor in Joe...

As federal OSHA has remained without a COVID-19 specific or infectious disease rule to enforce, some state plan OSHA agencies have...

The Fall 2020 Regulatory Agenda, released on December 10, is a government-wide listing of regulations which each agency expects to take...

After hitting record low numbers of federal OSHA inspectors during 2019 - at 752, the agency had reached the lowest in the agency's 50...

Two New Jersey men – a federal OSHA inspector and his brother – have been charged with extortion and conspiracy, after seeking money from...

According to a new report issued on November 12, 2020 from the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General, as the saying goes,...

Scalia v. Wynnewood Refining, (10th Cir., Oct. 27, 2020) arose from a 2012 boiler explosion at an Oklahoma refinery which killed two...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in June 2019; we are publishing the article again due to the Oct. 2020 Court of...