Occupational Safety and Health Administration - a federal regulatory agency in the USA.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration - a federal regulatory agency in the USA.
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Active disregard for safety protocols and worker's comp
Alice owns a manufacturing company. To keep her workers safe, she does a weekly safety reminder every Monday morning, rehashing different issues that could lead to accidents. Assume that this Monday the topic was "Hydraulic Injection Injuries" (HII…
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Karen sues a workshop for damages as she was trespassing and disregarding mandatory safety gear. Does she have a case?
Let's paint the scene: We work in the back of a metalworking workshop in Austin Texas. Huge machines make lots of noise, at times there are steel panels on the floor with access holes to access the cabeling, in the entry area is grating to try and…
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Does Biden OSHA vaccine mandate apply to remote workers?
Does Biden vaccine mandate apply to remote workers? I am programmer full-time employee working from home. Our company was fully remote before the pandemic in 2019.
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Can the U. S. Supreme Court decide on agencies, laws, etc., that are not in front of them for a decision?
Current streaming news indicates that Justice Clarence Thomas wants to "go after" OSHA. Can the court do this ad hoc without cases regarding OSHA being argued in front of them for a decision?
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Minimum clearance for sidewalks in multi-family residential dwellings during Construction?
I am in California, and I am a tenant with a landlord that decided to build ADUs 4 feet away from my apartment entrance. That is, a 4 feet wide sidewalk is what separates my apartments from a large excavation ditch.
My concern is that the…
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What are a business's obligations now that the Biden (OSHA) administration has suspended enforcement of its business vaccination mandate(s)?
The Biden administration has suspended enforcement of its vaccination
and testing requirements for private businesses after a federal
appeals court halted the rules pending review.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, in a statement…
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