On July 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued OSHA Directive Number CPL 02-02-079. The Directive is intended to establish "policies and ...

On June 25, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued Inspection Procedures for the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards. The new procedures, 124 pages in length, went ...

The Federal Agency Targeting Inspection Program (FEDTARG) directive provides the procedures OSHA field staff must follow when conducting safety inspections at some of the most hazardous federal ...

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Last September, our team published an episode of OH&S SafetyPod about Surprise Inspections from OSHA—what you should and shouldn’t do should a Safety Compliance Officer come knocking at your workplace ...

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, has formally proposed a new regulation that would spell out who may accompany agency inspectors during on-site ...

In a notice issued Aug. 14, OSHA says its inspectors found the company did not make sure that required lockout/tag out procedures were followed during the inspection of a furnace with a water leak.

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