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Government Regulations provides the latest information about government regulations that address occupational safety and health issues as well as environment and public health issues.
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Meatpacking facility

Most employers hit with COVID-19 safety fines haven't paid, reports Reuters

February 18, 2021

Of the more than 300 employers who have accrued safety penalties during the coronavirus pandemic, only about one-third have paid, according to an investigation by Reuters.


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OSHA HazCom violations

OSHA proposes revised HazCom standard to conform to GHS

February 17, 2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed rules to modify the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to conform to the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) Revision 7.


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AIHA 2020

Leading health organizations call on OSHA and CDC to issue guidance on preventing occupational exposures due to aerosol transmission of SARS CoV-2

February 11, 2021

The Joint Consensus Statement summarizes what occupational health professionals and scientists currently know about airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission and outlines recommendations.


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10 safety mistakes that can cost you a legal case

Breaking the chain of “substantial continuity” — Tenth Circuit clarifies test for repeat OSHA violations

Megan E. Baroni Christopher Y. Eddy Peter R. Knight Jonathan H. Schaefer
February 10, 2021

As OSHA practitioners and environmental, health and safety professionals know, avoiding repeat citations is often a central issue when resolving an OSHA enforcement matter. OSHA policy instructs the agency to consider several factors when determining whether to characterize a citation as “repeat.” One of those factors involves a situation in which there has been a change in corporate structure or ownership between the initial and subsequent violations.


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Why is there OHS malaise in the U.S.?

Voluntary best practices implementation is risk management
Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
February 8, 2021

Federal OSHA is stagnant and ill-prepared to regulate future risks. OSHA has only 1,850 inspectors to cover 8 million U.S. workplaces. OSHA has no regulations for rising concerns such as infectious disease, EMFs, psychosocial hazards, or ergonomics.


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COVID-19

OSHA updates COVID-19 guidance after President Biden’s Executive Order

February 4, 2021

As directed by President Joseph Biden’s Executive Order issued on January 21, 2021 requiring the Federal Government to take swift action to protect workers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released updated guidance on how to prevent exposure and the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.


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Meatpacking facility

House COVID subcommittee will investigate OSHA, US meatpackers

February 4, 2021

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Monday, February 1, launched an investigation into widespread COVID-19 infections and deaths in US meatpacking plants. Representative James Clyburn, Chairman of the Subcommittee, sent letters to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods and JBS USA.


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government rulemaking

President Biden issues executive order for OSHA to boost COVID-19 workplace safety

January 28, 2021

On January 21, 2021, in an effort to provide enforcement of more stringent worker safety standards, President Biden issued an Executive Order (‘EO”) on Protecting Worker Health and Safety. 


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COVID vaccine

When can industrial workers get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Devin Partida
January 28, 2021

Industrial businesses have faced unprecedented challenges amid COVID-19. Companies have dealt with shutdowns and other disruptions for almost a year now, but the end may be near. As vaccines begin to roll out, many workers now wonder when they can get vaccinated.


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White House

Biden nominates Obama’s surgeon general

January 22, 2021

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams resigned at President-elect Joe Biden’s request on Wednesday, as the incoming president sought to make a symbolic break with his predecessor’s covid-19 response.


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