Haynes and Boone CDG is proud to feature a chapter in the Second Edition of Global Arbitration Review’s (GAR) Guide to Energy Arbitrations. The Guide to Energy Arbitrations is a widely regard...

OSHA’s proposed revision to the lockout/tagout rule is facing major delays.  As previously reported, OSHA made its proposed revisions to the rule, and many others, under OSHA’s Standards Improvement P...

Congress and the White House utilized the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Obama Administration’s final rule entitled “Clarification of Employer’s Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain an...

More than 40 years after the original beryllium standard, OSHA, under the Obama Administration, issued a final rule on January 9, 2017, reducing the occupational exposure limits for beryllium.

In August 2016, OSHA promulgated rules that significantly increased the maximum penalties for violations of safety regulations by 78 percent. This constituted the first penalty increase since 1990 ...

OSHA rescinded a memo creating the Union Walk Around Rule, which stated that non-union employees may elect anyone to accompany OSHA compliance officers as they inspect the employer’s worksite.

OSHA announced that it has delayed the much-anticipated July 1, 2017, compliance deadline for employers to electronically submit form 300A injury and illness data.

Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta was sworn in on April 28, 2017, after his Senate confirmation. Secretary Acosta has experience serving on the National Labor Relations Board and has held the positi...

The final rule for General Industry Walking-Working Surfaces and Fall Protection (“Walking-Working Surfaces Rule”) was published in November of 2016, but some of the deadlines for compliance are in Ma...

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (“OSHRC”) is the highest administrative court deciding contested citations resulting from OSHA inspection.