OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels testified at a House of Representatives committee hearing yesterday that he “greatly appreciates the work of this committee in proposing legislation that would significantly increase OSHA’s ability to help protect American workers.”
The American Industrial Hygiene Association has told the House Labor and Education Committee that it applauds the committee’s efforts to strengthen OSHA across a number of fronts. The committee is holding hearings this week on the bill, which if passed would usher in the most radical changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Act since its enactment in 1970.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) yesterday said it does not support the effort to link together key provisions of the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAW Act, HR 2067), introduced last year, to mining safety and health provisions of the Mine Safety and Health Act of 2010 bill, HR 5663, for which the Congressional Committee is holding hearings on this week.
The Coalition for Workplace Safety, an alliance of business associations, sounded off yesterday at a House of Representatives hearing on a bill to add teeth to MSHA and OSHA enforcement. The coalition said nothing about mines, but plenty about the OSHA provisions tacked onto the bill.
OSHA has cited the U.S. Postal Service for workplace safety violations related to electrical hazards found at the Capitol Heights Processing and Distribution Center, an OSHA press release states. Proposed
Solicitor of Labor M. Patricia Smith, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main and Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels will testify
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Symposium titled “Rethink Safety: A New View of Human Error and Workplace Safety,” will take place in San Antonio, TX, November 4-5, according
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday proposed the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS2, according to an
A coalition of online organizers, local bloggers, politicians and other public figures have announced the formation of a Tea Party-style, "grassroots" political movement aimed at forcing BP to make clean-up workers wear respirators, so as to protect their health as they work along the Gulf Coast.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) last week requested more information from OSHA regarding the agency’s efforts to protect the health of cleanup workers at BP oil spill sites.
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