The lawsuit asks that the county be prohibited from implementing the program and that an individual plaintiff be awarded $500,000 or more in damages.

By preventing routine government collection of information that may be quite sensitive, OSHA is avoiding the risk that such information might be publicly disclosed. 

Employers should note that OSHA continues to operate uninterrupted during the government shutdown, having received funding from Congress last September that should take the agency through the rest of this year

Construction trade workers represented 57 percent of fatal electrical accidents.

OSHA found Arrow Plumbing LLC committed six willful and eight serious violations of workplace safety standards, and initially proposed a $714,142 fine.

New procedure would replace the three currently required performance metrics with a single new metric AFUE2.

Simon comes to ACCA most recently from Ducks Unlimited’s government relations office.

Employees were making a trenchless sewer repair when the incident occurred. 

Law makes WaterSense program part of federal law for first time.