Category: OSHA Rulemaking
Top 5 OSHA Issues to Track in 2019 and OSHA’s 2018 in Review [Webinar Recording]
On January 15, 2019, the Partners in Conn Maciel Carey’s national OSHA Practice presented a webinar on “The Top 5 OSHA Issues to Track in 2019, and OSHA’s 2018 In Review.” The ball has dropped, the confetti has been swept out of Times Square, and 2018… Continue Reading “Top 5 OSHA Issues to Track in 2019 and OSHA’s 2018 in Review [Webinar Recording]”
Delinquent State OSH Agencies Adopt E-Recordkeeping; Calif. Employers to Submit 2017 Injury Data by Year End
By Andrew Sommer, Megan Shaked, and Dan Deacon As we have reviewed previously on the OSHA Defense Report, federal OSHA’s Rule to “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” (aka the E-Recordkeeping Rule) requires small employers that operate in certain “high hazard industries” and all large employers to… Continue Reading “Delinquent State OSH Agencies Adopt E-Recordkeeping; Calif. Employers to Submit 2017 Injury Data by Year End”
Delinquent State OSH Agencies Adopt E-Recordkeeping; Calif. Employers to Submit 2017 Injury Data by Year End
By Andrew Sommer, Megan Shaked, and Dan Deacon As we have reviewed previously on the OSHA Defense Report, federal OSHA’s Rule to “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” (aka the E-Recordkeeping Rule) requires small employers that operate in certain “high hazard industries” and all large employers to… Continue Reading “Delinquent State OSH Agencies Adopt E-Recordkeeping; Calif. Employers to Submit 2017 Injury Data by Year End”
Announcing Conn Maciel Carey’s 2019 OSHA Webinar Series
We are now two years into the Trump Administration, and we have seen a mixed bag of changes in the OSHA enforcement and regulatory landscape. We have watched some late Obama-era OSHA rules get repealed by the Congressional Review Act or delayed and amended… Continue Reading “Announcing Conn Maciel Carey’s 2019 OSHA Webinar Series”
Delinquent State OSH Plans, Particularly Cal/OSHA, Catch-up with Fed OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping Rule
By Eric J. Conn and Dan C. Deacon When fed OSHA promulgated the Final Rule to “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” (aka the E-Recordkeeping Rule) in 2016, it built into the Rule a mandate that all State Plans adopt substantially identical requirements to the final… Continue Reading “Delinquent State OSH Plans, Particularly Cal/OSHA, Catch-up with Fed OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping Rule”
[WEBINAR RECORDING] Important Cal/OSHA Issues that California Employers Must Track
On July 10, 2018, Conn Maciel Carey attorneys Andrew J. Sommer, Eric J. Conn, and Megan S. Shaked presented a webinar: “Key Cal/OSHA Issues that California Employers Must Track.” The state of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, is perhaps the most aggressive and enforcement-heavy… Continue Reading “[WEBINAR RECORDING] Important Cal/OSHA Issues that California Employers Must Track”
Article: California Supreme Court Ruling on Suitable Seating: Legal and Ergonomics Perspectives
By Andrew J. Sommer, Esq. and Brandy Farris Ware, PhD, CPE, CSSBB A recent California Supreme Court ruling provides crucial new guidance on how courts should weigh the evidence in so-called “suitable seating” cases, which employee litigants are bringing under the state requirement that employers provide… Continue Reading “Article: California Supreme Court Ruling on Suitable Seating: Legal and Ergonomics Perspectives”
OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program: A Severe Injustice
By Eric J. Conn, Chair of Conn Maciel Carey’s national OSHA Practice Group It has been five years since OSHA launched its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (“SVEP”), and two years since an agency White Paper trumpeted the program’s “strong start” and progress on “key goals.” A closer examination of OSHA’s SVEP… Continue Reading “OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program: A Severe Injustice”
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Ashley D. Mitchell
Beeta B. Lashkari
Eric J. Conn
Rachel L. Conn
Megan Shaked
Samuel Rose
Theresa Green
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