What Is OSHA and Why Do Some Republicans Want to Disband It?
What does OSHA do? OSHA’s objective is to keep Americans safe and healthy at work. “The OSHA law says that employers have the ...
Here's why Rep. Andy Biggs wants to abolish OSHA oversight nationwide
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration would be abolished in favor of state workplace regulation under ...
Republican Calls to Scrap Workplace Safety Agency
Representative Andy Biggs made an earlier bid to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2021.
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Executive Order Halts OSHA Rulemaking
A broad executive order issued in the first days of the Trump administration has indefinitely delayed a number of changes to safety standards ...
Lawmaker introduces bill to demolish workplace safety agency, slams ‘bloated federal government’
Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs (R) introduced a bill Monday that would abolish the Occupational Safety and Health ...
OSHA: GE Appliances could have prevented employee's death
GE Appliances has a "troubling history of safety failures" and failed to take steps that could have prevented the July 2024 ...
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Biden’s OSHA Updates Electronic Recordkeeping Directive Before Transition – But Will New Administration Change Course?
In the last days of President Biden’s administration, federal workplace safety officials issued an updated compliance directive on the ...
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Now Republicans want to put OSHA on the chopping block
Republican Party efforts to dismantle the federal government have now shifted towards eliminating the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Amanda Laihow Set to Be OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Pick
Attorney Amanda Wood Laihow is slated to become the political deputy assistant secretary at the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, according to multiple sources familiar ...