The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has rules that protect workers against extremely unlikely events, but no rules to protect workers from some more likely hazards. We ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing a new federal rule that would provide protection from the heat for people working outside. The past few days have ...

How exactly does one define a hand tool? Do any tools with a power source count, or does being powered automatically ...

The research found that state rules requiring water and rest breaks when it’s hot address a wide range of dangers.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has extended the deadline for public comments on its proposed ...

Responding to adverse comments from the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and other construction industry organizations, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week released the final version of a set of workplace ergonomic standards aimed partly at reducing the repetitive-motion injuries that ...

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has identified the grain handling industry as extremely hazardous. Being trapped in grain is the most common type of accident that occurs.

Aug. 8—WATERTOWN — Watertown Fire Commissioner Warren Day is convinced that the future of small, rural volunteer fire departments is at stake if proposed federal Occupational Safety and Health ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- Conflicted California workplace regulators approved controversial rules that allow workers to go maskless only if every employee in a room is fully vaccinated against the ...