In light of the ongoing and devastating fires in Los Angeles County, Cal/OSHA released new guidance to ensure the safety and health of ...

These comments, signed by more than 100 ABMA members, reflect the collective voice of the lumber and building materials ...

National Waste & Recycling Association emphasizes the need for flexibility to address heat risks across work environments.

Last year, the Legislature stripped local governments of the power to enact protections, saying a county-by-county approach ...

Early the week of January 13, NWRA submitted comments on OSHA’s proposed Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Standard, ...

On January 14, 2025, just six days before the transition from the Biden Administration to the second Trump Administration, OSHA closed the books ...

OSHA notably uses wet-bulb temperature, a lower measurement that accounts for heat and humidity. Anna Bershteyn, an associate professor at NYU Langone, says people can overheat in a variety of ...

One letter from 16 attorneys generals names a number of people who were killed on the job by extreme heat. “While nothing can be done to bring these workers back, OSHA can protect these types of ...

More than 40 people got sick in a gastrointestinal illness outbreak on a Silversea ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Their main symptoms were diarrhea and abdominal cramps.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced adjusted OSHA penalties for 2025, raising fines for safety violations to account for inflation. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced adjusted ...

The agency said it halted its efforts due to the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, adding that any ongoing risk of COVID-19 faced by health care workers would be better addressed in an OSHA ...