A recent ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) clarifies OSHA’s ability to fine companies for older recordkeeping violations.

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Tags: injury logs, OSHA logs, OSHRC, recordable injuries, Recordkeeping

Just hours before President Obama’s State of the Union speech in which he focused on job creation, OSHA withdrew its second major proposal in a week and said it would seek more input from small businesses on a change to injury logs.

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Tags: business friendly, David Michaels, ergonomics, injury logs, musculoskeletal disorders

Scenario: A company failed to record an employee’s injury that happened more than four years ago. Can OSHA fine the company for that four years later?

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Tags: injury logs, OSHA fines, OSHRC, Recordkeeping, Volks Constructors

In the wake of the April 20 oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, an article by ProPublica, an investigative journalism website, quotes former BP employees as saying management pressured or harassed them not to report safety problems.

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Tags: BP, David Michaels, injury logs, pressured not to report safety problems