On July 20, 2001, OSHA announced the start of a National Emphasis Program to reduce occupational exposures to lead. According to OSHA, lead exposure is a leading cause of workplace illness and can ...

Federal safety regulators slapped a Superior, Wis., shipyard with 29 violations — mainly for "willful" safety breaches — after finding that 14 workers retrofitting a Great Lakes freighter were ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to Lead Enterprises Inc., a lead recycling and manufacturing company based in Miami, alleging that the ...

Exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead may cost a Black River Falls, Wis., company $250,000 in proposed penalties, says the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The agency alleges ...

OSHA announced the outcome of its Lead in Construction Standard lookback review in yesterday's Federal Register, and Assistant Secretary of Labor Edwin G. Foulke Jr. said employers and employees in ...

U.S. Battery Manufacturing of Augusta Inc.—an Augusta, Georgia-based battery manufacturer—is facing $160,727 in penalties following an OSHA investigation that uncovered employees' exposure to ...

In response to requests from interested parties, federal labor officials have extended the deadline to comment on its proposed revisions for the workplace lead-exposure standard by two months. It is ...

The Agriculture Department violated employee safety laws when conducting lead abatement activities at its headquarters offices last spring, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently ...