Bruce Rolfsen

An administrative judge’s decision vacating an OSHA citation for warehouse operations offers insight into when employers must demarcate lanes for forklifts and other vehicles in order to stay compliant with federal workplace safety rules.

Darling Ingredients Inc., a multibillion-dollar supplier of animal food ingredients, unlawfully failed to protect workers involved in a fatal industrial accident, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled.

OSHA is extending the comment period for its proposed rule on who can accompany inspectors during inspections until Nov. 13, the agency said Friday.

Nearly 16 months into OSHA’s heat stress emphasis program the agency has inspected about 4,700 workplaces but only issued comparatively few citations for heat-related violations. Instead, the agency has focused on educating businesses and issuing warning letters that stop short of citing employers. Meanwhile, state and local leaders make a plea to get work permits to migrants more quickly.

Reports that President Joe Biden’s pet dog Commander bit 11 federal employees, including US Secret Service members, have prompted a Republican lawmaker to probe worker safety at the White House.

The White House is reviewing OSHA’s proposal to update requirements for what warning information chemical and other hazardous material manufacturers and distributors must include on packaging.

A Pennsylvania contractor marketing roof repairs isn’t liable for the fall safety violations of a subcontractor, an administrative law judge held, clarifying how much control a prime contractor must have over workers to be fined by OSHA.

Businesses in California must prepare workplace violence prevention plans by next summer under a first-in-the-nation state law that some attorneys have called vague and tricky to implement.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is again facing federal allegations that the food processing company failed to protect workers from explosive grain dust at its Decatur, Ill., plant.

The federal agency in charge of protecting miners from workplace hazards is promising to improve how it documents mine inspections following a critical report by the US Labor Department’s watchdog.