Notice 9 Jul 2025 compliance, information collection, business regulations, osha, workplace safety

🦺OSHA Seeks Comments on Walking-Working Surfaces Standard

OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to extend the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the information collection requirements specified in its Walking-Working Surfaces Standard.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulatory changes, health, osha, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respirators, 1, 3-butadiene

😷Proposed Changes to OSHA's Respirator Requirements for 1,3-Butadiene

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

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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, 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, federal regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, railroad, penalties, safety regulations, workplace safety, bridges, occupational safety and health, railroad safety

🚦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.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 osha, workplace safety, employers, entertainment industry, general duty clause

🎭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.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, railroad, penalties, safety regulations, workplace safety, bridges, occupational safety and health, railroad safety

🚦Administrative Updates to Railroad Workplace Safety Regulations

This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad workplace safety regulations, including updating addresses.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, health, osha, labor regulations, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respirators, cotton dust

😷OSHA Proposes Changes to Cotton Dust Respirator Standards

This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Cotton Dust 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, workplace safety, occupational safety and health, respiratory protection, asbestos

🛡️Proposed Amendments to OSHA Asbestos Standards Impacting Businesses

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

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