Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers must provide their employees with a hazard-free work environment. The act includes a comprehensive set of standards that employers must ...

In 1970, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, whose primary mission is to ensure that employees carry out ...

OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements involve two distinct obligations: recording injuries in the injury log and reporting ...

The following list sets out the typical OSHA standards and the General Duty Clause that may require an employer to create, retain, and produce certain documents during the course of an inspection, if ...

Each year, 2.3 million people suffer workplace accidents or diseases due to various hazards like chemicals and poor ergonomics. Safety and health programs prevent illnesses and deaths and alleviate ...

A bill to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been introduced in the House for the third time. The bill’s sponsor opposes federal efforts to regulate private workplace ...

Now that the dust has settled from the 2024 elections, it is time to assess what impact the Trump administration will have on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA regulations ...

Nevada Division of Industrial Relations proposed aligning the penalty structure for worker safety violations with the federal ...

When it comes to chemical exposure protection for employees and downstream users, companies must be compliant with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations. In 1970, OSHA ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established by the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) of 1970, which took effect in 1971. OSHA’s mission is to ...

Conscientious safety professionals typically devote a great deal of time over the course of their careers learning when particular instances of physical injury suffered by employees, such as back, ...