AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Department of Labor. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is amending its existing standards for occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. OSHA has determined that employees exposed to respirable crystalline silica at the previous permissible exposure limits face a significant risk of material […]
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: OSHA is adding a new subpart to provide protections to employees working in confined spaces in construction. This new subpart replaces OSHA’s one training requirement for confined space work with a comprehensive standard that includes a permit program designed to protect employees from […]
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: OSHA is extending its November 10, 2014, deadline for employers to ensure that crane operators are certified by three years, until November 10, 2017. OSHA is also extending its employer duty to ensure that crane operators are competent to operate a crane safely […]
OSHA announced it will propose to extend the compliance date of its crane operator certification requirement by three years, to Nov. 10, 2017. The proposal would extend to that same date the existing phase-in requirement that employers ensure their operators are qualified to operate the equipment. These come from OSHA’s final standard on requirements for […]
Stage: Prerule RIN: 1218-AC53 CFR Citation: 29 CFR 1980 Abstract:OSHA is amending 29 CFR 1980, the procedures for handling whistleblower complaints under the Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act, title VIII of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. 1514A (SOX), to implement statutory changes enacted by Congress under sections 922 and 929A of the Dodd-Frank Wall […]
