6+ hour, 52+ min ago  (301+ words) A federal workplace heat safety program expired this week, just as regulators on Friday unveiled an updated enforcement initiative aimed at continuing inspections in high-risk industries, according to agency documents. The U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Emphasis Program on…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago  (377+ words) Canada's Building Trades Unions (CBTU) today pressed the country's labour ministers to provide the needed political momentum towards the national harmonization of safety standards training in the construction industry. Addressing the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Annual meeting of Ministers responsible for Labour in…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (211+ words) Ask your smart speaker to play K Y W Newsradio on Audacy PHILADELPHIA(KYW Newsradio) " The search for the construction workers who went missing after the fatal parking garage collapse in Grays Ferry on Wednesday afternoon has been put on…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (454+ words) The agency updated its National Emphasis Program to better target high-risk industries using recent data on workplace heat illness. The U. S. Department of Labor's OSHA has updated its National Emphasis Program focused on protecting workers from indoor and outdoor heat-related hazards....

9+ hour, 13+ min ago  (211+ words) A Washington state battery manufacturer is facing $224, 320 in penalties after regulators said it failed to correct dangerous workplace conditions that exposed employees to toxic lead. Inspectors found the company had not remedied more than a dozen violations first identified in…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago  (145+ words) The National Law Review On March 27, 2026, California's Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board retracted a worker-friendly decision issued earlier in March because it failed to consider the employer's answer to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health's (Cal/OSHA) petition…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (429+ words) The company that owns the tanker that exploded this week and killed its driver in Mooresville has previously been cited for inappropriately storing hazardous chemicals, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality records show. In 2025, state inspectors fined Brenntag, a global…...

8+ hour, 6+ min ago  (242+ words) The Center Square [By Kim Jarrett] " The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Accurate Energetic Systems $3. 1 million after investigating a deadly October explosion at the Bucksnort plant that killed 16 people. The agency said Wednesday that of the 100 violations, 59 were…...

7+ hour, 46+ min ago  (395+ words) Washington " The Mine Safety and Health Administration has delayed "indefinitely" the deadline for metal and nonmetal mine operators to comply with its final rule on miner exposure to respirable crystalline silica. Citing ongoing litigation challenging the rule, the agency on…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago  (216+ words) LOUISVILLE, Ky. " Months after a fatal factory explosion in Shively, Kentucky's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined the company. An explosion at the AAK plant, which processes vegetable oils, killed one employee on Sept. 21, 2025. Shively Fire officials determined…...