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In anticipation of the upcoming deadline for motor carriers to transition from paper logs to electronic logging devices (ELDs) to record driver hours of service, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is conducting a public education and outreach effort. The ELD Implementation National Tour, taking place through November, is geared towards helping commercial motor […]
By a two-thirds super majority, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 398 to extend the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program to 2030. Cap-and-trade is the state’s main tool—and, many believe, the most effective tool—for meeting its 2030 goal of a 40 percent reduction in GHGs over 1990 levels. Given the Trump administration’s withdrawal […]
In an apparent timing maneuver, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has formally proposed to rescind the Obama administration’s 2015 rule establishing requirements for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and gas (O&G) reserves on federal and tribal lands.
OSHA’s hazard communication standard, also known as HazCom, gives employees the right to know and understand the hazards of the chemicals they could be exposed to at work. It’s a simple concept, but many employers fall short when it comes to compliance, as evidenced by hazcom’s status as the most common OSHA violation in general […]
On July 3, a boiler explosion just outside Dhaka, Bangladesh put supply chains back in the news: the factory made clothing for seven European retailers. Like other clothing and footwear retailers before them—brands as recognizable as Nike, Walmart, and H&M—those retailers will answer in the court of public opinion for the preventable deaths and injuries […]
On the night of July 3, 2017, workers at the Multifabs Limited garment factory just outside Dhaka, Bangladesh were preparing to put the facility back into production. The factory, which supplies knitted apparel to firms in seven different European countries, had been shut down for the 10-day Eid holiday at the end of the Muslim […]
OSHA has cited a South Florida utility contractor and a related contracting company after investigating the deaths of three workers who succumbed to toxic gases in a manhole in January at a worksite in Key Largo.
The EPA has finalized two rules required by the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which are intended to guide the Agency in both prioritizing chemicals for risk evaluations and actually conducting those evaluations.
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), there are more large trucks and buses on America’s roadways than ever before. Nearly 12 million registered commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) are operating in the United States today. Those vehicles must share the road with more than 251 million registered passenger vehicles (according to 2014 figures […]
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, is known for having some of the most stringent workplace safety regulations in the country. Employers in California need to comply with a number of rules with no federal counterpart, including the Injury and Illness Prevention Program rule, heat illness prevention standards, and many […]