Now that OSHA’s Cranes and Derricks in Construction final rule has been "officially" published in the Federal Register, employers must start the painstaking task of crawling through all of the new requirements and making sure their policies and procedures are fully compliant. The vast majority of the rule’s new requirements take effect on November 8, 2010, so that
August 2010
OSHA’s Regulatory Agenda Picking Up Steam
By Bradford T. Hammock on
Posted in OSHA Rulemaking
After issuing a flurry of new enforcement initiatives earlier in the year, such as the Severe Violator Enforcement Program and its memorandum administratively increasing civil penalties, OSHA seems to have shifted its focus a little back toward its regulatory program. OSHA rulemaking often proceeds at a glacial pace, but in the last few months the Agency has issued two…