Learn how the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act safeguards workplace safety, OSHA's role, and which businesses must ...

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Every worker deserves a safe and healthy workplace. That principle is at the heart of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which created OSHA and established the duty for employers to ...

A bill to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been introduced in the House for the third time. The bill’s sponsor opposes federal efforts to regulate private workplace ...

To honor fallen workers on this Workers’ Memorial Day, Peg Seminario, AFL-CIO director of safety and health, urges the public to stop and think about the fact that an average of 16 individuals die ...

If an employer decides to contest a citation, the employer must serve OSHA with a notice of contest within fifteen working days of receiving the citation. A failure to resolve a case through an ...

The Biden Administration is trying to make it easier for employees to voice their health and safety concerns on the job. To that end, two agencies that oversee workplace safety and health will be ...

Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for filing a health or safety complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health ...

Matt is chair of the firm’s OSHA and workplace disasters practice group and former chair of the labor and employment practice group. He has successfully handled hundreds of agency proceedings, ...