April 28, 2020
States are beginning to plan ways to safely reopen their economies, and with that, businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic should plan how to reopen as well. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) have issued guidance and recommendations that should assist businesses in reopening.
OSHA’s Guidance
OSHA has issued guidance for…
April 8, 2020
COVID-19 impacts business operations in ways that change daily: unemployment compensation, sick leave, and employee retention are a few of the areas receiving regular updates.
Employers must also remember their obligations to employees who raise safety concerns, especially relating to the COVID-19 threat to health and safety. Employee safety initiatives have been focused on identifying and…
April 3, 2020
On April 3, 2020, OSHA issued updated guidance on the use of N95 masks as a result of shortages of these masks for Health Care Providers and other industry across the country. This guidance is meant as a supplement to N95 fit test guidance issued on March 14, 2020. The updated guidance provides overarching guidance for all industries that commonly use N95 masks as well as specified guidance for…
March 16, 2020
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 16, Number 2
©2020 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) had become a pandemic. Then, on March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency to help mobilize the response and streamline funding to assist in fighting the disease. To date, the…
May 27, 2019
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 15, Number 2
©2019 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released its Spring 2019 semi-annual regulatory agenda for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) on May 22, 2019.
Included in the agenda is the issuance of OSHA’s final rule in the Standards Improvement Project IV revising 14…
October 11, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 14
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a rule that amended 29 C.F.R. § 1904.35 and added a provision prohibiting employers from retaliating against employers for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses. See 29 C.F.R. § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv). In the…
July 30, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 13
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On Monday, July 30, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to revise the Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illness rule. The proposed rule rescinds the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to…
June 24, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 12
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
July 1, 2018, is the deadline for employers to electronically submit their injury and illness records to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”). The July deadline requires that certain employers electronically submit their 2017 300A injury and illness logs.
Previously, OSHA…
February 28, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 5
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On February 21, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued guidance on Interim Enforcement Procedures for Failure to Submit Electronic Illness and Injury Records under 29 C.F.R. § 1904.41(a)(1) and (a)(2). Employer establishments subject to OSHA recordkeeping…
February 26, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 4
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Herb Gibson, Area Director for the Denver Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) office, spoke at the February meeting of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (“ASSE”). At that meeting, he listed the priorities for the Colorado OSHA offices for 2018,…
January 2, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 1
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
In accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”), and several other U.S. Department of Labor civil penalties are increasing. This yearly inflation adjustment, an…
December 18, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 26
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Do you have more than 20 employees in one of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) listed industries? Or, do you have more than 250 employees at one of your establishments where you keep OSHA logs? Have you submitted your 300a summary to OSHA? If not, do not worry as OSHA…
April 28, 2020
States are beginning to plan ways to safely reopen their economies, and with that, businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic should plan how to reopen as well. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) have issued guidance and recommendations that should assist businesses in reopening.
OSHA’s Guidance
OSHA has issued guidance for…
April 8, 2020
COVID-19 impacts business operations in ways that change daily: unemployment compensation, sick leave, and employee retention are a few of the areas receiving regular updates.
Employers must also remember their obligations to employees who raise safety concerns, especially relating to the COVID-19 threat to health and safety. Employee safety initiatives have been focused on identifying and…
April 3, 2020
On April 3, 2020, OSHA issued updated guidance on the use of N95 masks as a result of shortages of these masks for Health Care Providers and other industry across the country. This guidance is meant as a supplement to N95 fit test guidance issued on March 14, 2020. The updated guidance provides overarching guidance for all industries that commonly use N95 masks as well as specified guidance for…
March 16, 2020
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 16, Number 2
©2020 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) had become a pandemic. Then, on March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency to help mobilize the response and streamline funding to assist in fighting the disease. To date, the…
May 27, 2019
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 15, Number 2
©2019 Jackson Kelly PLLC
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released its Spring 2019 semi-annual regulatory agenda for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) on May 22, 2019.
Included in the agenda is the issuance of OSHA’s final rule in the Standards Improvement Project IV revising 14…
October 11, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 14
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a rule that amended 29 C.F.R. § 1904.35 and added a provision prohibiting employers from retaliating against employers for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses. See 29 C.F.R. § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv). In the…
July 30, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 13
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On Monday, July 30, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to revise the Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illness rule. The proposed rule rescinds the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to…
June 24, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 12
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
July 1, 2018, is the deadline for employers to electronically submit their injury and illness records to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”). The July deadline requires that certain employers electronically submit their 2017 300A injury and illness logs.
Previously, OSHA…
February 28, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 5
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
On February 21, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued guidance on Interim Enforcement Procedures for Failure to Submit Electronic Illness and Injury Records under 29 C.F.R. § 1904.41(a)(1) and (a)(2). Employer establishments subject to OSHA recordkeeping…
February 26, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 4
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Herb Gibson, Area Director for the Denver Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) office, spoke at the February meeting of the Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (“ASSE”). At that meeting, he listed the priorities for the Colorado OSHA offices for 2018,…
January 2, 2018
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 14, Number 1
©2018 Jackson Kelly PLLC
In accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”), and several other U.S. Department of Labor civil penalties are increasing. This yearly inflation adjustment, an…
December 18, 2017
For clients and friends of Jackson Kelly PLLC
Volume 13, Number 26
©2017 Jackson Kelly PLLC
Do you have more than 20 employees in one of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) listed industries? Or, do you have more than 250 employees at one of your establishments where you keep OSHA logs? Have you submitted your 300a summary to OSHA? If not, do not worry as OSHA…
