MSHA's new silica rule, finalized in 2024, represents a key legacy of the Biden Administration. Although compliance seemed distant when the rule was first issued, the deadlines for compliance are ...

Recent confirmations at the Department of Labor (DOL) mark a new phase for federal workplace safety and health oversight. With David Keeling now leading the Occupational Safety and Health ...

A federal agency and an industry group are partnering to provide training resources and analyze injury data to protect workers. Federal regulators and a major industry association have launched a ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is centering its annual Electrical Safety Month campaign on the prevention of arc flashes, following a series of serious injuries and fatalities in the ...

Donald Trump loves to present himself as a champion of coal miners. But his administration keeps delaying the implementation of a safety rule to lower miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust. It has ...

The Trump administration is preparing to water down or kill a proposed federal rule on workplace heat exposure. The rule, introduced last year by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

Decision relies on Mine Safety Act ban on rule changes that make mining less safe. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a Mine Safety and Health ...

A warming climate exposes more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, yet soon after taking office, Donald Trump indefinitely froze a heat illness prevention rule proposed ...