UPDATE 9/25/2025 Proposed rule; extension of post-hearing comment period. We have an update to the update and will likely have another update to this update later. That’s a lot of updates! OHSA held its public hearing from June 16 through …
A List You Don’t Want to Make It’s that time of year again. The time of year where we discuss the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) top ten most cited violations for fiscal year 2025. On September 16, 2025 …
Site-Specific Targeting Recently The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a National News Release updating its inspection program which focusses on establishments with the highest rate of injuries and illnesses based on submitted data …
Injury Tracking Application (ITA) Data Some of you may or may not know this, but you can review the data collected on the OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 forms submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) through its …
Civil Penalties Increase Hot off the heels of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Final Rule increasing penalty amounts, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has followed suit with their own final rule increasing civil penalty amounts for 2025 …
2023 Most Cited Violations Can you believe it’s that time of year already? We are already talking about what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) top ten most cited violations are for the fiscal year 2023! Where did the …
Are We Improving As An Industry? Recently announced at this year’s National Safety Council Safety Congress and Expo held in San Diego, California, the acting Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Directorate of Enforcement Programs, Patrick Kapust, …
CoVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Update Two major updates have coming down the pipeline this week involving the fate of the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for business with 100 or more employees. The first update is the extension of comments by 45 …
Rail Safety Reminder I figured it would be fitting to do a blog on the Polar Express with it finally being December and official the start of the Christmas countdown for many of us. You may also be asking yourself, …
Exemption Vacated! On November 8, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Final Rule revision to the original 2018 rule “Reporting Requirements for TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act) Mercury Inventory: Mercury.” You may be asking yourself what does this …