California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted December 19 to make the state’s emergency respirable crystalline silica (RCS) standard permanent. The rule aims to protect workers, especially those who work with artificial, man-made stone, from silica exposures.

Fatal workplace injuries declined 3.7% in 2023, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced December 19 with the release of its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reached a corporatewide settlement agreement with Amazon.com Services LLC to resolve 10 ergonomics cases about to go to trial before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, OSHA announced December 19.

The Harbor Animal Services Center of San Pedro, California, operated by Los Angeles City Animal Services, faces a $563,250 fine after a series of employee animal attacks and bites, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) announced December 17.

January 09, 2025 (Final Rule) - FMCSA has issued a correction, for a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2024, amending its regulations by making technical corrections throughout the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).