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The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Union Pacific Railroad Co., headquartered in Omaha, to pay a total of $400,000 in punitive damages, $90,315 in compensatory damages, $34,900 in attorney fees and more than $90,000 in back wages to three employees. Separate investigations by the Kansas City, Mo., and San Francisco, Calif., offices of the
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs released a final rule Tuesday that revises and modernizes the procedures used in administering claims under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. The rule, published in the June 28 Federal Register, modernizes those procedures to increase fairness and efficiency, updates the regulations to account for recent
Read moreThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently unveiled a new interactive web tool to help users determine whether injuries and illnesses are work-related and recordable under the OSHA Recordkeeping rules. The OSHA Recordkeeping Advisor is an interactive tool that simulates an employer’s interaction with a Recordkeeping rules expert. The Advisor relies on the users’ responses to
Read moreBelow is a link for the federal register notice posted by OSHA – a proposed revision to the injury and illness recordkeeping rule that includes a NAICS update (supplanting the use of SIC). By doing so, it changes the mix of industries that will now be covered by the recordkeeping rule (some new industries like
Read moreUnderstanding the GHS Overview The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) is a worldwide initiative to promote standard criteria for classifying chemicals according to their hazards and communicating hazard information on labels and safety data sheets. GHS was developed by international mandate to: Benefit countries, international organizations and chemical producers Enhance
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