OSHA on Tuesday released the reports it has compiled on 27 states' and territories' state-run OSHA programs, indicating it has finished an analysis that began after OSHA issued its critical review ...

Three states are at risk of losing their State OSHA Plans. In this episode, Editor Sydny Shepard breaks down what it takes for a state to have authority to enforce their own work worker protection ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on April 30 that employers in state plans are now required to file their injury and illness reports using the federal agency’s ...

Some Republican politicians have vowed to ignore the regulation, but they could wind up in the same boat as South Carolina, Arizona and Utah: facing the possibility of losing their state plan’s ...

U.S. states and territories are permitted to develop plans that supplement – rather than replace – OSHA by creating laws that specifically cover state and local government workers only.

The state rejected the conclusion that its plan was less effective than the federal plan. Twenty-eight states or territories have OSHA-approved plans for enforcing workplace safety.

The total lockout/tagout fine amount for all states and federal OSHA combined is $7.9 million ($4.4 million are federal OSHA citations and $3.5 million are state-issued citations). With such high ...

Based on our research, many state plan states have already adopted OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping Rule and all of those have opted to use the federal portal. However, many other state plan states have ...

Four states with state-level OSHA plans—Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee—currently prohibit school districts from requiring teacher vaccinations, bans that may be overridden by the new ...

According to OSHA, 28 states have their own OSHA-approved plans — 22 of which cover both private sector and state and local government workers. The last time OSHA certified a state's new rules ...

The governor's office would be given $1 million to create a plan that ultimately must be federally approved. The governor's office would be given $1 million to propose its own version of OSHA.