Bruce Rolfsen
Writer for Occupational Safety and Health Reporter at Bloomberg Law
Retired senior reporter from Bloomberg @BLaw focusing on #OSHA and workplace safety/health, enforcement. Misspellings are my fault. Retweet isn't endorsement.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Bruce Rolfsen
OSHA will launch the public comment period for its first national workplace heat-stress prevention proposed rule on August 30, according to a notice published Thursday on the Federal Register’s public inspection website. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration will take comments for 120 days on a proposal that’s been years in the making as global temperatures continue to soar.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
news.bloombergtax.com | Bruce Rolfsen
Businesses would expose themselves to thousands of dollars in fines under a recently proposed OSHA rule if they fail to properly document their efforts to protect workers from heat stress. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s July 2 proposal (RIN:1218-AD39) could eventually lead to first-ever national heat protections for indoor and outdoor work sites by 2025, if the next president backs the regulation.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
news.bloombergtax.com | Bruce Rolfsen
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration will issue a proposed rule to protect about 36 million indoor and outdoor workers from heat stress, according to a senior Biden administration official. The proposal, slated to appear on the Federal Register’s Public Inspection desk today, comes after the US experienced a heat dome in late June that produced scorching temperatures across a wide swath of states.
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Jun 30, 2024 |
news.bloombergtax.com | Rebecca Rainey |Riddhi Setty |Bruce Rolfsen
Federal agencies that enforce labor and employment laws will have to adjust their regulatory and litigation strategies following the US Supreme Court’s decision to gut a legal doctrine that directed courts to accept how agencies interpret unclear laws, attorneys said. The high court Friday overturned a 1984 precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, that required judges to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
news.bloombergtax.com | Bruce Rolfsen
California is close to finalizing its first heat stress protections for workers who labor indoors after a state safety board approved a regulation that was delayed earlier this year over cost concerns. The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board unanimously ratified the heat stress rule on Thursday, sending it for one last legal review before it can take effect.
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