Beeta B. Lashkari

3 weeks ago | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Beeta B. Lashkari

We are providing an update on federal OSHA’s Heat Illness Prevention rulemaking and hopefully starting a meaningful dialogue with the employer community about potential next steps for this controversial rulemaking.

1 month ago | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Beeta B. Lashkari |Darius Rohani-Shukla

On January 14, 2025, just six days before the transition from the Biden Administration to the second Trump Administration, OSHA closed the books on collecting public comments about the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) for a Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings standard, taking the proposed rule one step (perhaps a very long step now) away from issuing a final Heat Standard.

Jan 20, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Beeta B. Lashkari

On Tuesday, January 14, the CSB announced a new “incident report” tool, calling it a “new safety product to provide the public with more information about serious chemical incidents reported to the agency.”  Through its announcement, the CSB released the first volume of incident reports. The CSB will be compiling summaries of incidents reported under its Accidental Release Reporting Rule (“ARRR”) and making them available to the public on the CSB’s website on a regular basis.

Jul 31, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Beeta B. Lashkari

On July 2, 2024, OSHA revealed an unofficial version of its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for an Indoor and Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Rule. For unknown reasons, OSHA has not yet published the official NPRM in the Federal Register, but it is expected any day. Interested stakeholders will have a 120-day period to submit public comments to OSHA after the NPRM is published, which will make comments due likely sometime in December 2024.

Jul 3, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Eric Conn |Beeta B. Lashkari |Kate McMahon

To kick off the 4th of July Celebration early, today, July 2, 2024, OSHA released an unofficial version of its Indoor and Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”). An official version will be published in the Federal Register in the next few days, maybe even tomorrow. Once published in the Federal Register, the regulated community will have a 120-day period to submit public comments to OSHA’s rulemaking docket.