January 18, 2012 – 9:05 pm
By Marc Freedman – Jan. 17, 2012 (originally posted at FreeEnterprise.com) On January 10, OSHA inaugurated the New Year by issuing a white paper extolling the virtues of Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (also known as IIPPs, I2P2, or just safety and health programs). The paper discusses the key components OSHA has found in common [...]
We recently told you that a Coalition for Workplace Safety spokesperson was set to testify about the priorities for the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. To follow up, here is the written testimony of Stuart Sessions, who received this write-up from Bloomberg: Stuart Sessions, president of Environomics Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland, whose [...]
February 14, 2011 – 4:58 pm
From the House Education and Workforce Committee: On Tuesday, February 15 at 10:00 a.m., the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing on “Investigating OSHA’s Regulatory Agenda and Its Impact on Job Creation” in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Since 1970, the Occupational Safety and Health [...]
January 19, 2011 – 12:14 pm
The Coalition for Workplace Safety is pleased that OSHA has announced that they will be withdrawing their proposal that would have required employers to implement costly and disruptive new controls for employee exposure to noise. OSHA indicated that they received a tremendous of amount of feedback from employers that have detailed their concerns with the [...]
December 14, 2010 – 11:44 am
Senators Olympia Snowe (R) and Joseph Lieberman (I) have sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis regarding OSHA regulation of noise in the workplace. Specifically, the agency is proposing an interpretation regarding exposure to noise in the workplace. The Senators’ letter warns, “There is significant alarm, in the manufacturing community in particular, [...]
December 14, 2010 – 11:33 am
Originally posted at Shopfloor.org of the National Association of Manufacturers: OSHA formally announced in the Federal Register this morning that that the agency will be extending the comment period for their proposal to change noise abatement requirements. However, many on Capitol Hill are asking OSHA if the agency understands the impact that this proposal will have on [...]
December 6, 2010 – 2:53 pm
Senators Olympia Snowe (ME), the top Republican on the Small Business Committee, and Mike Enzi (WY), the top Republican on Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension are concerned about the direction OSHA is taking. In a recent letter, the Senators took issue with the fact OSHA “proposed several significant regulatory changes that could negatively [...]
November 19, 2010 – 1:33 pm
The Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor of Labor this morning announced its intention of extending the comment period for re-interpretation of the OSHA Noise abatement requirement by 90 days. The original comment deadline was scheduled for December 20th, but the Coalition for Workplace Safety sought additional time for public input. This 90-day extension [...]
October 29, 2010 – 4:51 pm
The Coalition for Workplace Safety has filed Comments to the OSHA docket regarding On-Site and SHARP programs.
October 25, 2010 – 12:46 pm
First the good news: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (the DOL’s own keeper of stats) just announced that workplaces in 2009 were safer than they were in 2008: “nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined in 2009 to a rate of 3.6 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, down from a total case [...]
