Articles Discussing General Topics Under OSHA.

OSHA’s Back! Next Steps for Employers

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is officially back to work now that the government shutdown has ended.

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The Occupational Safety and Health Act’s General Duty Clause (GDC) has long functioned as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) catch‑all enforcement tool to address serious, recognized hazards where no specific standard applies.

On July 1, 2025, OSHA proposed modifications to the GDC that would narrow its reach to

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Workplace Chemical Protection Program (WCPP) under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has fundamentally changed the compliance landscape for occupational exposures to certain chemicals.

For multiple high‑priority substances, the EPA has issued legally binding occupational exposure limits—Existing Chemical Exposure Limits (ECELs), and,

The October 21, 2025, memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) sets out an aggressive framework to accelerate deregulatory actions across the federal government. Although the memo is addressed broadly to regulatory policy officers, its guidance has immediate and practical implications for

The 2025 federal budget impasse and the resulting partial government shutdown have curtailed routine operations across many agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA’s diminished functionality, even if it persists until after Thanksgiving 2025, as some predict, is unlikely to produce a dramatic, near-term deterioration in worker

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) emerged from the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to address widespread concerns about workplace safety. The statute reflects a deliberate structural choice: OSHA operates within the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as

Today’s constitutional challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) converge on three fronts: Article II of the U.S. Constitution for-cause removal protections for administrative officials, the nondelegation doctrine, and Article III/Seventh Amendment adjudication constraints.

The Supreme Court of the

The U.S. Senate’s October 7, 2025, confirmation of Jonathan L. Snare to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC)—the three-member adjudicatory agency that has not had a commissioner since April 2025—was an important first step toward restoring the federal workplace-safety appeals system, but it did not by itself revive

Two cases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals could place limits on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) ability to cite employers for failing to prevent workplace violence. Both cases involve psychiatric hospitals where staff reported assaults by patients, and OSHA issued citations under the Occupational Safety and

The Sixth Circuit’s recent decision in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC, Nos. 24-3133/3206/3252 (August 13, 2025), offers a powerful road map for agencies looking to regulate after Congress has used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to strike down prior rules. For the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which saw

The Impact of a Federal Government Shutdown on OSHA

The federal government is currently in a race against the clock. Unless lawmakers agree to a spending plan before midnight (ET) on Tuesday, September 30, federal appropriations will expire causing much of the federal government, including the Occupational Safety and Health

This is the seventeenth and final installment of a series of articles that have provided a high-level overview of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and how both influence workplaces in the United States.

The Post-Hearing Comment Period on OSHA’s Heat Rule Has Been Extended

On September 17, 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) extended the deadline to submit post-hearing comments on the Agency’s proposed rule for Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings. As this proposed rule

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) faces three competing budget proposals for fiscal year (FY) 2026: the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations’ proposal, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations’ bill, and the Trump administration’s request, the latter two of which are more or less aligned. These proposals