A Schnecksville tree service company has been fined nearly $137,000 for a fatal incident involving a woodchipper over the summer. 

The height of the concern over the COVID-19 virus may have passed, but that doesn’t mean employers shouldn’t still be concerned about their obligation to maintain a healthy environment at work. 

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has pledged to increase its COVID inspection goal to 10% as the agency works to finalize a permanent coronavirus healthcare standard.

The US Department of Labor said it is joining forces with Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville and Pennsylvania OSHA Consultation to protect warehousing, storage workers. 

To protect workers and reduce injuries and illnesses in the warehousing, storage and distribution industries, the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched the Regional Emphasis Program for Warehousing Operations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington D.C. and West Virginia. 

Northampton Community College is offering free webinars for health care workers and employers on the dangers of COVID-19 in the workplace on June 14.  The webinars came from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) vow to continue to vigorously enforce general standards it has adopted to help protect health care employees from the dangers ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry joined labor leaders Monday to advocate for enhanced workplace safety standards in Pennsylvania’s public sector. 

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is expected to release its new rule requiring businesses with over 100 employees to require their workers to be fully vaccinated or mandate weekly COVID-19 tests next week. 

Businesses with over 100 employees will need to either require their workforce to be fully vaccinated or require unvaccinated employees to take weekly COVID-19 tests as part of a new country-wide vaccination effort. 

On May 13, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) changed its COVID-19 masking guidelines, announcing fully vaccinated Americans could now unmask indoors.