Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, safety, business regulations, health, osha, labor, occupational safety and health, respiratory protection, methylene chloride

🛡️OSHA Proposes Changes to Methylene Chloride Respirator Rules

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Methylene Chloride standard and better aligns this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard. It also includes two technical corrections.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, lead safety, respirators

🛡️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.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, business costs, health, safety regulations, osha, labor, occupational safety and health, ethylene oxide, respirators

🦺OSHA Proposes Amendments to Ethylene Oxide Respirator Standards

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

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, health, osha, chemical safety, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respiratory protection

🥽Amendments to OSHA Respiratory Protection Regulations Proposed

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane standard and better aligns this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, health, osha, labor regulations, longshore and harbor workers, occupational safety and health, marine terminals, cost savings

🔥Proposed Removal of Open Fires Standard in Marine Terminals

This proposed rule removes OSHA's Open Fires in Marine Terminals Standard from the Code of Federal Regulations.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 safety standards, formaldehyde, regulatory reform, health, osha, occupational safety and health, workplace compliance, respiratory protection

🛡️Proposed Rule on OSHA's Formaldehyde Standard and Respiratory Protection

This proposed rule revises OSHA's Formaldehyde standard to eliminate duplicative respiratory protection requirements and better align this standard with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, construction, osha, construction industry, occupational safety and health, cost savings, illumination standards

💡OSHA Proposes to Rescind Construction Illumination Standards

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing to rescind the construction illumination requirements, codified in 29 CFR 1926.26 and 1926.56.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, transportation, safety, drug testing, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, railroad, penalties, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, communications, hazardous materials transportation, occupational safety and health, railroad safety, railroad employees, federal agency, fire prevention

🚆Proposed Removal of Redundant Regulations in Railroad Industry

FRA intends to remove thirteen sections throughout its regulations that unnecessarily recite the approval of information collection requirements by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), state the assigned OMB control number associated with the entire CFR part, and list the sections in that part with information collection requirements.

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Rule 27 May 2025 eligibility criteria, responders, workers' compensation, mental health programs, lung diseases, wtc health program, federal agencies, administrative practice and procedure, diseases, health care, law enforcement officers, health, occupational safety and health, healthcare regulations, cancer, volunteers, government policy, firefighters

🏥Expanded Eligibility for WTC Health Program Responders Announced

On September 11, 2024, CDC published in the Federal Register an interim final rule with request for comment to update existing regulations governing the WTC Health Program to align with statutory changes. The interim final rule expanded eligibility criteria for enrollment of new Pentagon and Shanksville responders, capped at 500 new members, and made various conforming amendments to the WTC Health Program regulations. In this final rule, CDC responds to public comment and finalizes the revisions to the regulation.

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Regulatory Compliance, Employment Initiatives 15 Jan 2025 healthcare, regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, health care, health facilities, health, public health, osha, infectious diseases, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, diseases, covid-19, quarantine