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Crane standard, emergency management on ACCSH meeting agenda

October 27, 2016

OSHA will hold a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) November 30 – December 1, 2016, in Washington, D.C. ACCSH, established under the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, advises the secretary of labor and assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health on construction standards and policy matters.

OSHA appoints new director for its construction directorate

September 19, 2016

OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels appointed Dean McKenzie as the new director of the agency's Directorate of Construction. McKenzie has been with OSHA for seven years including serving as deputy director of DOC.

Safety 2016: A look back

OSHA’s David Michaels discusses initiatives

Benita Mehta

July 5, 2016

OSHA Assistant Secretary of Labor Dr. David Michaels on Tuesday, June 28, in his address at Safety 2016 outlined some of the agency’s plans.

OSHA’s Michaels in China to discuss global OSH challenges

September 16, 2015

Building on more than a decade of cooperation and collaboration between the United States and China, OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels is in Beijing this week for a series of meetings with government officials, worker safety and health advocates, and industry representatives from both countries.

NSC Congress & Expo educational highlights

August 18, 2015

Opening Session: Building Safer Workplaces with Deborah A. P. Hersman, President and CEO, National Safety Council and Former Chair, National Transportation Safety Board; Michael Abrashoff, Former Navy Commander and Author.

From AIHce 2015

Why work became so bad (and more dangerous) for so many

Dave Johnson

June 1, 2015

One of the most thought-stirring sessions at this year’s American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) held this week in Salt Lake City is a discussion featuring OSHA boss Dr. David Michaels and Department of Labor Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division Dr. David Weil. They are talking about Dr. Weil’s 2014 book, “The Fissured Workplace: Why work became so bad for so many and what can be done to improve it,” published by the Harvard Press, in the context of workplace safety and health outcomes.

What Michaels said to OSHA employees

Agency head reviews achievements, challenges at "all-hands" meeting

March 25, 2015

Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be here with you today to take stock of where we've been as an agency over the past year and where we want to go together this year. I know that every one of you wants to lead a consequential life. That's why you came to work at OSHA. And you've succeeded.

Speaking at AIHce

Mountain climber, OSHA’s Michaels talk leadership, the “fissured workplace”

February 26, 2015

The woman who led an all-women’s mountain climbing team up Mt. Everest will talk about leadership principals in the AIHce 2015 Opening General Session on Monday, June 1.

Shipping co. exposes workers in multiple states to danger from defective forklifts

DOL: Company repeatedly ignored safety needs

February 19, 2015

Multiple inspections during the last several years by OSHA have found that Central Transport LLC has repeatedly left dangerously defective forklifts in service in at least 11 shipping terminals in nine states: Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Michaels on PELs rule: “We have an opportunity”

October 14, 2014

In formally requesting input from stakeholders about its bid to update chemical permissible exposure limits, OSHA is “initiating a national dialogue” about ways to prevent work-related illness caused by exposure to hazardous substances.