📦Proposed Rule to Reduce Costs for Hazardous Materials Shipments
This NPRM proposes to remove undue regulatory burdens by allowing for a reduced sized marking for limited quantity shipments of hazardous materials.
Learn More🚦Proposed Repeal of Outdated Railroad Safety Regulations
FRA proposes to repeal several roadway workplace safety requirements that have become obsolete. In addition, FRA proposes to establish a new special approval procedure to enable regulated entities, after public notice and FRA approval, to utilize an alternative approach to bridge worker safety that provides for an equivalent or better level of safety. Also, this rule proposes to clarify that the required training for operators of roadway maintenance machines equipped with a crane includes specific aspects such as maintaining vertical clearance.
Learn More🎭Proposed OSHA Rule on Inherently Risky Professional Activities
OSHA proposes to clarify its interpretation of the General Duty Clause, 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1), to exclude from enforcement known hazards that are inherent and inseparable from the core nature of a professional activity or performance.
Learn More🚂Administrative Updates to Grade Crossing Safety Regulations
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's grade crossing safety regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
Learn More🚦Administrative Updates to Railroad Workplace Safety Regulations
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad workplace safety regulations, including updating addresses.
Learn More📄Proposed Rule on Minor Child Definition for Labor Reporting
This proposed rule is soliciting public comments regarding revisions to the definition of "minor child" as that term appears in 29 CFR 404.1(h) and on the Form LM-30 Labor Organization Officer and Employee Report.
Learn More⛏️New Rule Allows Electronic Surveying Equipment in Coal Mines
MSHA is proposing to allow the use of electronic surveying equipment in high-hazard areas of underground coal mines, if the equipment meets certain technical specifications and is operated under specific conditions. This proposed rule would codify technical specifications and working conditions in MSHA standards to allow the use of electronic surveying equipment in underground gassy mines. This proposed rule would reduce burdens on underground coal mine operators because mine operators would no longer need to submit a petition for modification to use non-permissible electronic surveying equipment.
Learn More🚂Administrative Updates to Signal and Train Control Regulations
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's signal and train control regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
Learn More🛡️OSHA Proposes Revisions to Lead Respiratory Protection Standards
This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Lead standards and better aligns the standards with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.
Learn More🏗️MSHA Proposes New Rule for Hazard Communication Access in Mining
MSHA is proposing to revise 30 CFR part 47 to allow electronic access to all Hazard Communication (HazCom) materials at no cost to miners. This change would ensure miners have access to information about the chemical hazards where they work while reducing paperwork burdens for operators.
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