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Two years into this pandemic, there are no binding national workplace safety rules for COVID-19. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate was blocked by the Supreme ...

OSHA has finalized changes to its PPE standard for the construction industry, requiring all PPE properly fit workers who need it. The updated rule addresses long-standing concerns about ill-fitting ...

Construction remains one of the most hazardous industries in the United States, and OSHA’s 2025 regulations are raising the bar for safety compliance. With the industry still responsible for more than ...

After previous attempts expired or were knocked down in federal court, the Labor Department is now working to create a permanent set of coronavirus safety rules for health-care facilities, trying to ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has updated its efforts to focus on workplace amputations during factory inspections and making sure machinery is properly guarded and maintained ...

Keeping everything clean and orderly is a project that’s never finished, and some of the items that most frequently appear on facility inspection reports relate to poor housekeeping. Even though the ...

After months of discussion, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will move forward with emergency statewide standards to address what worker advocates have been calling “an ...

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, to create stronger workplace rules for keeping workers safe from COVID-19. The ...