by Eric J. Conn
OSHA has been quite busy the last few months on the rulemaking front, and it does not...
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by Eric J. Conn
After years of advocacy for change to (or the recission of) the Occupational Safety a...
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by Eric J. Conn
A fascinating jurisdictional tug-of-war has broken out between federal OSHA and a few...
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by Eric J. Conn
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued an opinion granting ...
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by Eric J. Conn
As of Jan. 2, civil penalties for workplace safety and health violations issued by fe...
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by Kevin Guth
Let's face it: Our regulatory process to protect the health of workers is broken. Thi...
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by Eric J. Conn
There are several nuances employers routinely miss that affect the determination of w...
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by Michael Halliwell
Seeing just how political workplace safety in the U.S. has become, one can’t help but...
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by Eric J. Conn
In a dramatic, but not unexpected, move last month, OSHA suspended this controversial...
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by Eric J. Conn
On January 17, 2017, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new Walking-...
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by Michael Halliwell
I recently took the time to look at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administr...
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by Eric J. Conn
Following the enactment of this controversial rule [the Recording and Reporting Occup...
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by Eric J. Conn
OSHA has expressed particular concern with the supposed chilling effect and retaliato...
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by Eric J. Conn
The new “workers’ rights” anti-retaliation provisions of the updated Recording and Re...
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by Eric J. Conn
OSHA’s recent reform to its Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illness...
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by Eric J. Conn
On June 30, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an Interim Final Rule to implement th...
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by Eric J. Conn
Over the course of this year, employers can expect to see longer, more comprehensive ...
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by Eric J. Conn
Late last year I wrote about a significant rulemaking to amend OSHA’s injury and illn...
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by Eric J. Conn
In what can only be viewed as another example of OSHA’s inability to effectively adva...
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by Eric J. Conn
In the 40-plus years since Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act, t...
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by Eric J. Conn
In addition to employers’ longstanding obligation, as of Jan. 1, 2015, to report to O...
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by Eric J. Conn
Perhaps the most common question I am asked about OSHA inspections is
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by Michael Halliwell
As I write this, it’s October, which means that the new OSHA confined space standard,...
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by Robert Ikenberry
In the works since 1980, federal OSHA recently published new construction-specific co...
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by Eric J. Conn
In April 2013, OSHA declared that protecting temporary workers would become a top pri...
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by Eric J. Conn
On July 13, 2014, President Obama executed Executive Order 1376: “Fair Pay and Safe W...
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by Eric J. Conn
It’s been five years since OSHA launched its Severe Violator Enforcement Program, and...
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by Eric J. Conn
This month has brought an unwelcome announcement from the Occupational Safety and Hea...
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by Eric J. Conn
On May 21, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a memo discussin...
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by Eric J. Conn
Fall hazards are always among the top Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
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by Robert Ikenberry
Reading about the proposed requirement for companies to upload their OSHA 300 logs go...
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by Eric J. Conn
Intrusive and burdensome are just two of the words we used in reporting...
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by Eric J. Conn
I was recently asked an interesting question: “Employers often are told to know and e...
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by Simon Hope
One of the eternal problems that our industry grapples with is defining the differenc...
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by Robert Ikenberry
When you try to foster safety by offering incentives, do you really get what you want...
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