As states and municipalities reopen more, businesses are reviving in-person operations leaving employers to confront myriad state and local requirements, industry-specific guidelines, and commonsense health practices to operate a business in a post-COVID-19 world, according to Law360.
A thorough return-to-work strategy addresses at least one aspect of health and safety other than the illness itself: …
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory want to make better masks. They’ve been working on ideas since the early days of the pandemic. And now they’re ready to roll them out. Research is being conducted on the 1700-acre campus in a Chicago suburb.
Jeff Elam PhD. and his colleague Anil Mane PhD. work with chemical coatings …
The California Legislature has passed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 685, requiring employers to notify every employee of potential COVID-19 exposure at the workplace. Governor Newsom signed AB 685 into law and it will go into effect on January 1, 2021. AB 685 will bring the following changes to employers in California:
AB 685 expands Cal/OSHA’s …
EPA has released a comprehensive strategy for combating marine litter throughout the world.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said it is estimated that 11 to 28 billion pounds of waste fill the world’s waterways, harming marine life and coastal economies.
“The United States Federal Strategy for Addressing the Global Issue of Marine Litter” outlines the four …
EPA Region 2 (N.J., N.Y., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and eight Native-American nations) has issued 29 advisory letter and eight notices of warning to entities operating in New York and New Jersey to address pesticide products and devices that were found to be marketed with unsubstantiated claims of efficacy against the novel coronavirus (the …
Twenty-seven hundred dead through July. Not coronavirus. Opioids, according to Tucson.com. In the first seven months of 2020, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported over 2,700 newly suspected opioid overdose deaths in Arizona. What makes this figure more startling is that there were just over 3,800 suspected opioid deaths in the preceding 30 months. …
EPA has released a list of 500 disinfectants that it approves for use to clean in the midst of COVID-19.
There are a lot of options for effective cleaners, but there are also lots of unsafe or ineffective “disinfectants” out there that do not have a …
After the October 16 deadline, states have submitted their plans for distributing the coronavirus vaccine per the CDC’s request, according to Occupational Safety and Health magazine.
States such as Texas, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Maryland and California rolled out distribution plans that vary in detail.
California: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on October 19 that California will review …
The Department of Labor is prohibiting its worker protection agencies from issuing press releases announcing when they issue citations and sanction employers, according to Bloomberg Law.
The DOL policy targets the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Wage and Hour Division.
“As a matter of Department policy, in …
In recent years, U.S. manufacturers have taken major steps to make their supply chains more sustainable to fight climate change, according to an article in Forbes.
Levi Strauss is shaking up the apparel sector by committing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions within its own facilities by 90% by 2025. Earlier this year, GM …
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