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Worker safety is a priority for all your employees, but for some workers, it's a little harder to monitor. It's estimated that there are 53 million lone workers in the US Canada, and Europe.

Can we ever request a non-birthing parent to take parental leave all at once or limit their intermittent leave, so they aren't taking multiple blocks of time within the rolling 12-month period?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the government agency tasked with setting and enforcing workplace safety standards.

Workers' compensation costs are among the largest expense for many companies.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2022 ("CAA"), signed into law by President Biden earlier this month, allows high deductible health plans (HDHPs) to provide first-dollar coverage for telehealth...

Worcester Medicine has published "Restructuring Practices the Legal Way" by Peter Martin and Jake Tosti. The health care provider community has been effected by COVID-19 in many ways...

A review of your program can reveal areas of change in your business and the need to adapt. There are a number of tools an resources out there to help start this process.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has extended compliance deadlines for its revised Hazard Communication Standard by four months, giving employers and manufacturers additional time to review guidance materials before implementing new workplace labeling and training requirements. The extension affects critical deadlines for updating hazard communication programs and employee training related to newly identified chemical hazards in both substances and mixtures.

As the National Labor Relations Aboard (NLRB's) radical December 2014 steps have shown, and to loosely quote William Shakespeare, "the Obama administration will not go quietly into the night."

Ken Knox's article "Safety Zone" was featured in Turf on June 11, 2015.

President Trump's selection for Administrator at MSHA has been confirmed this week by the Senate.

Senate hearing scheduled for the White House pick, Scott A. Mugno, as the new Administrator of OSHA.

On March 22, 2017, the Senate voted to kill an OSHA regulation that would enable employers to be cited for recordkeeping violations that occurred as long as five years ago.

If you advise employers, then you're probably used to giving advice that derives more from good HR practices than from what the law requires.

My colleague Tyrone Thomas was quoted in a SHRM article entitled Confront Employees Who Perpetrate Domestic Violence in which he comments on ways employers can investigate an employee’s alleged off-duty, off-site domestic violence.

In a recent standard interpretation, OSHA concluded that soft tissue management (massage) is first aid for recordkeeping purposes.