As the construction season gets underway in the Northeast, I’m reminded of Scott Ketcham’s recent remarks at the American Bar Association’s OSHA/MSHA Law Conference in San Diego. Ketcham, the Director of OSHA’s Directorate of Construction, made it clear that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is focusing its regulatory muscle on the construction industry […]
The communication tower and tree care standards will both reach the “Proposed Rule” phase this year. The Federal Register makes it official The last regulatory agenda signed by Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia in the fall of 2020 was recently re-signed by the Federal Register Liaison Officer — for administrative purposes — and published in […]
Cumulative complaint data suggests that employers in many business sectors are facing new employee safety challenges. Complaint Data OSHA has been logging coronavirus-related complaints since February 1, 2020, and as of July 23, 2020, federal OSHA has received 7,091 complaints, and state OSHA programs have received 18,300 complaints. Federal OSHA has closed 6,138 complaints and […]
OSHA seems to be highly predictable when issuing citations on a large multi-employer jobsite. They tend to cite both the offending subcontractor and the general contractor based solely on the subcontractor’s safety mistakes. This is problematic for any general contractor, and it’s a problem that gets magnified exponentially on jobsites where hundreds of subcontractors are […]