By Beeta B. Lashkari and Andrea Chavez As record-breaking temperatures continue to impact communities and workplaces across the country, heat ...

To establish a violation, OSHA must prove four things: The employer failed to keep the workplace free of a hazard to which its employees were exposed, the hazard was recognized, the hazard was causing ...

Fighting fires has evolved, but federal safety regulations haven’t changed for nearly half a century. Now the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed new safety standards. It ...

OSHA standard 29 CFR 1926.451 outlines requirements for workers operating on scaffolds. For instance, every scaffold and its components must be able to bear its own weight and at least four times ...

OSHA regulations are designed to reduce work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and its enforcement has been a cornerstone of American workplace safety for decades.

• 60% No, that would be a very bad and dangerous idea. • 19% Yes, and transfer workplace safety enforcement to the states. • 10% No, but federal OSHA is too big and its budget should be reduced. • 4% ...