The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its 2019–2020 “Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements,” the regulatory and voluntary changes the board feels will reduce transportation-related injuries and fatalities.

On March 11, OSHA will begin enforcing additional provisions of its general industry beryllium standard. The agency will begin enforcing requirements for change rooms and showers.

The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has scheduled an advisory committee meeting for May 9, 2019, to discuss electronic submission of injury and illness records and decide whether to require electronic filing of Cal/OSHA Forms 300 and 301 after federal OSHA rescinded the requirement.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will begin maintaining a firefighters’ cancer registry, trying to determine any links between workplace exposures and subsequent cancers.

Employers must comply with several sets of federal environment, safety and health laws and regulations. In a recent letter of interpretation, OSHA outlined where federal pesticide labeling requirements end and where hazard communication requirements begin and where the two overlap.