Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulation, transportation, safety, drug testing, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, penalties, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, investigations, communications, hazardous materials transportation, occupational safety and health, railroad safety, railroad employees, fire prevention, noise control

🚂Update on the Definition of "Person" in Railroad Regulations

This final rule updates the definition of "person" in FRA's regulations to provide for regulatory consistency. FRA is making these clarifying changes to better align with FRA's safety jurisdiction and to conform definitions in FRA's older regulations with the definition of "person" that FRA has used in its most recent rulemakings. In one section where "person" is defined, FRA is also replacing references to specific penalty amounts with general references to FRA's minimum civil monetary penalty, ordinary maximum civil monetary penalty, and aggravated maximum civil monetary penalty amounts, consistent with FRA's current practice.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, healthcare, regulation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, health care, health facilities, health, public health, occupational safety and health, diseases, occupational safety, covid-19, quarantine, cost savings

📉Proposed Rule to Remove COVID-19 Recordkeeping in Healthcare

OSHA is proposing to remove OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard and its associated recordkeeping and reporting provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, transportation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, penalties, hazardous materials transportation, occupational safety and health, federal railroad administration, occupational safety, railroad safety, railroad employees, regulatory updates

🚆Administrative Updates on Locomotive Cab Safety Regulations

This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's locomotive cab occupational safety and health regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respirators, benzene

🥽Proposed OSHA Benzene Rule Update on Respiratory Protection

This proposed rule would revise some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Benzene standard and would better align this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, health, business, occupational safety and health, osah, respiratory protection, cadmium

🦺Proposed Changes to OSHA’s Cadmium Regulations and Respirators

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Cadmium standards and better aligns these standards with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, administrative practice and procedure, construction, osha, freedom of information, labor, occupational safety and health, occupational safety, advisory committees

⚒️OSHA Revokes Certain Construction Safety Regulations to Streamline Processes

This final rule revokes 29 CFR 1911.10, which required the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health (Assistant Secretary), who heads OSHA, to consult with the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) in the formulation of rules to promulgate, modify, or revoke standards applicable to construction work, and 29 CFR 1912.3, the general OSHA regulations governing ACCSH. This final rule also makes corresponding changes to 29 CFR 1911.11, 29 CFR 1911.15, 29 CFR 1912.8, and 29 CFR 1912.9. OSHA is revoking 29 CFR 1911.10 and 29 CFR 1912.3 because these regulations impose requirements on the Assistant Secretary that are more burdensome than those mandated by statute, and compliance with these regulations would needlessly delay the Secretary of Labor's (Secretary) regulatory agenda. These changes will ensure that ACCSH is able to advise the Secretary on potential regulatory actions without adversely affecting the agency's regulatory timeline.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulations, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respirators, methylenedianiline

🦺OSHA Proposes Revisions to Methylenedianiline Respirator Standards

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Methylenedianiline standards and better aligns these standards with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respirators, carcinogens

🛡️Proposed OSHA Revisions to 13 Carcinogens Regulation Impacting Businesses

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's 13 Carcinogens standard and better aligns this standard with OSHA's respiratory protection standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, safety, business costs, health, vessels, safety regulations, osha, labor, longshore and harbor workers, occupational safety and health, occupational safety, signs and symbols

⚙️Analysis of OSHA Safety Color Code Regulatory Removal

This proposed rule removes from the Code of Federal Regulations: OSHA's Safety Color Code for Marking Physical Hazards Standard, 29 CFR 1910.144; paragraph (c)(8) of OSHA's Textiles Standard, 29 CFR 1910.262; paragraph (c)(11) of OSHA's Sawmills Standard, 29 CFR 1910.265; and OSHA's Safety Color Code for Marking Physical Hazards for Shipyard Employment Standard, 29 CFR 1915.90.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, health, occupational safety and health, osah, respiratory protection, acrylonitrile, business safety

🛡️Proposed Revisions to Acrylonitrile OSHA Standard Compliance

This proposed rule revises some provisions of OSHA's Acrylonitrile standard to better align it with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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