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The White House said on April 9 that President Biden had picked Doug Parker, chief of Californiaโ€™s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) since 2019, to be assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health. (OSHA). During the Obama administration, Parker was deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Dept. of Laborโ€™s Mine Safety and Health Administration. Earlier, he was a senior policy advisor and special assistant at the Department of Labor (DOL). An...

13 April, 2021

In response to President Biden's executive order on protecting worker health and safety, the U.S. Department of Labor'sย Occupational Safety and Health Administrationย has launched aย national emphasis programย focusing enforcement efforts on companies that put the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus. The program also prioritizes employers that retaliate against workers for complaints about unsafe or unhealthy conditions, or for exercising other rights protected by federal law. "This deadly pandemic has taken a staggering...

15 March, 2021

Protect workers. Decrease risk. Increase safety. Check out OSHA's guidance on implementing a COVID-19 Prevention Program in the workplace. OSHA has answers to questions about reporting work-related exposures to COVID-19. https://twitter.com/i/status/1357333085352849410 ...

22 February, 2021

The BCTGM welcomes the message released by leading scientific experts urging stronger protections for workers and the public due to proof that inhalation is the major route of transmission causing COVID-19 infections and outbreaks. Leading scientific and medical experts are calling upon the Biden Administration to take immediate action to address inhalation exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a cornerstone of the COVID-19 pandemic response. In a letter to the Biden administrationsโ€™ top officials heading the...

19 February, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, affecting more than 7.4 million Americans, with more than 210,000 deaths in the United States, the AFL-CIO has released its annual Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report, which contains data showing how the current administrationโ€™s failure to act in the past has been a main contributor to the gravity of the current public health crisis. During a video press conference to release the report, AFL-CIO...

09 October, 2020

Since the pandemic began, OSHA, whose mission is โ€œto ensure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women,โ€ reports that it has receivedย over 10,000 complaintsย from workers concerned about a lack of protections against the coronavirus. But until early September, six months into the crisis, the agency had issued citations to justย twoย employers, requiring them to adopt safer practices, according to available OSHA records.Read the full article here. ...

07 October, 2020

H.R. 6559 - The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020 would require OSHA to issue a standard to protect essential workers like BCTGM members - on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to send a letter to Congress urging their immediate support for H.R. 6559: The COVID-19 Every Worker Protection Act of 2020. BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton sent this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to urge passage of H.R....

07 May, 2020

Under the Trump administration, the number of federal workplace safety inspectors has sharply declined. Since President Donald Trump took office, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lost 40 inspectors through attrition and as of October 2, has not hired new inspectors to fill the vacancies, according to data obtained by NBC News. According the the findings of NBC, the departing inspectors made up 4 percent of the OSHA's total federal inspection force, which fell below 1,000...

10 January, 2018

According to the AFL-CIO, since January, government agencies under the Donald Trump administration have taken steps to hide information from the publicโ€”information that was previously posted and information that the public has a right to know. But a recent move is especially personal. ย Early this month, the agency responsible for enforcing workplace safety and healthโ€”the Occupational Safety and Health Administrationโ€”removed the names of fallen workers fromย its home pageย and has stopped posting information about workplace deathsย on itsย data...

16 September, 2017

The Congressional and White House attacks on worker rights and health and safety continue. On Wednesday March 1, 2017, the House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 83, a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval, that would repeal an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule that clarifies an employerโ€™s responsibility to maintain accurate records of serious work-related injuries and illnesses. The Resolution passed 231-191, largely along party lines with the Republicans in support of doing away...

02 March, 2017

New federal requirements take effect August 10, 2016 WASHINGTON โ€“ The U.S. Department of Laborโ€™s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued aย final ruleย to modernize injury data collection to better inform workers, employers, the public and OSHAย about workplace hazards. With this new rule, OSHA is applying the insights of behavioral economics to improve workplace safety and prevent injuries and illnesses. OSHA requires many employers to keep a record of injuries and illnesses to help these employers and...

11 May, 2016

Some safety incentive programs are โ€œespecially problematic with ergonomic issues,โ€ according to OSHAโ€™s deputy director. Jordan Barab told attendeesย at the 19th annual Applied Ergonomics Conference in Orlando that itโ€™s difficult to hide an injury like a broken leg, but itโ€™s not as hardย to hide a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD). Barab continued a dialog on safety incentive programs that resurfaced when OSHA proposed revisions to its guidelines for Safety Management Systems. In those guidelines, OSHA said companies shouldnโ€™t use safety...

23 March, 2016

Americaโ€™s system for preventing worker illnesses and deaths from chemicals, fumes and dust is so broken that OSHA warns companies not to rely on its legal exposure limits to protect employees. The Center for Public Integrity has produced a new series of investigative reports on occupational health hazards and the failure of the government to limit exposures. The first installment, Slow-Motion Tragedy for American Workers, reviews the devastating impacts of exposures to silica and other workplaces toxins,...

30 June, 2015

The financial and social impacts of workplace injuries are huge, with workers and their families and taxpayer-supported programs paying most of the costs. Read the full OSHA Report: ย Adding Inequality to Injury: The Costs of Failing to Protect Workers on the Job How has the cost of a workplace injury affected you? ย Share your story about workplace injuries.  ...

13 March, 2015

According to a recently published study, as many as 90 percent of the employers participating in the annual U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) do not comply with OSHA recordkeeping regulations, resulting in underreporting of work-related injuries and illnesses by 38 percent of the surveyed employers Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for theย LexisNexis Workersโ€™ Compensation eNewsletter, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of...

30 August, 2014