Osha Alliance Provides Important Workplace Safety Updates For Technical Guide Assessing Robot Systems
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Increasingly, U.S. industries are using robotic technologies to perform dangerous or repetitive tasks, and these systems are becoming more collaborative and mobile in nature. While these advances add new capabilities to work and the workplace, they also introduce new workplace hazards for those who work with, and alongside them. In…
OSHA Withdraws Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard
By Subcontractors USA News Provider The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is withdrawing the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard issued on Nov. 5, 2021, to protect unvaccinated employees of large employers with 100 or more employees from workplace exposure to coronavirus. The withdrawal is effective January 26, 2022. Background and…
Harris County Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Adrian Garcia Develop a $200,000 Disparity Study Fund To Help Entities Implement MWBE Programs
A disparity study determines whether a government entity, either in the past or currently, engages in exclusionary practices in the solicitation and award of contracts to minority, women‐owned, and disadvantaged business enterprises (MWDBEs). This study can help determine if there is disparity between the availability of firms and the utilization of those firms in its…
Statement on the Status of the OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare ETS
By Subcontractors USA News Provider OSHA recently announced that it intends to continue to work expeditiously to issue a final standard that will protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 hazards, and will do so as it also considers its broader infectious disease rulemaking. However, given that OSHA anticipates a final rule cannot be completed in a…
The Role of Employers in Responding to COVID-19
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthy workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm. As we are still in the midst of the pandemic, employers should continue to engage with workers and their representatives to determine how to…
U.S. Department of Labor Alleges Global Truck Manufacturer Fired Worker Concerned About Coronavirus Safety at Texas Facility
By Subcontractors USA News Provider As the coronavirus began to spread rapidly across the nation in March 2020, an employee of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of light, medium and heavy-duty trucks told a supervisor of their concerns about exposure to the virus at the Denton facility. In response, a representative of PACCAR Inc….
U.S. Department of Labor Orders Houston Crane Company To Pay Nearly $24k to Worker Who Refused To Violate Federal Law
By Subcontractors USA News Provider A federal whistleblower investigation led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order a Houston mobile crane rental company to pay a former employee nearly $24,000 in back wages, interest and damages after firing the worker in June 2020 for refusing to drive in excess of…
New Online Portal Simplifies Application Process for OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs
By Subcontractors USA News Provider A new online portal for submitting applications to the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) is now available. The new portal modernizes the application process for companies that qualify for VPP and makes it easier for candidates to start, continue and get assistance…
U.S. Department of Labor Reminds Employers To Avoid Compliance Issues By Ensuring Worker Safety, Proper Pay Practices This Holiday Season
By Subcontractors USA News Provider With the National Retail Federation expecting retailers to hire more than 500,000 seasonal workers and employers hopeful for a busy holiday season, the U.S. Department of Labor reminds them not to overlook their worker’s rights to a safe and healthy workplace and to be paid all of their legally earned…
For More Than 20 Years, Bexar County’s Small Business & Entrepreneurship Department Connects Small Businesses to Opportunities
COVID-19 has wrought unprecedented challenges that have and continue to affect us in profoundly different ways…
The Associated General Contractors of America Meets With White House on OSHA COVID-19 Testing Mandate
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Recently, The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) met with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to share a host of concerns about the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) draft emergency temporary standard (ETS). OSHA sent the draft ETS—the details of which remain unknown—to OMB…
US Department of Labor Initiates Rulemaking to Protect Workers, Outdoors and Indoors, From Heat Hazards Amid Rising Temperatures
By Subcontractors USA News Provider Record-breaking heat in the U.S. in 2021 endangered millions of workers exposed to heat illness and injury in both indoor and outdoor work environments. Workers in outdoor and indoor work settings without adequate climate-controlled environments are at risk of hazardous heat exposure, and workers of color are exposed disproportionately to…
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