OSHA softens its hard line against workplace safety incentive programs and post-incident drug testing
It's been two years since OSHA announced its hard-line interpretation of its then newly announced anti-retaliation rules—that using i...
Topic: workplace safety
Can (or should) OSHA regulate the NFL?
By Jon Hyman
Sports blog Deadspin asks: What If The NFL Were Regulated By OSHA? Well, Deadspin, I’m glad you asked. I answered this very question ov...
DO NOT sacrifice employee safety for productivity
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Milo McDowell on Unsplash The Verge reports that workers at an Amazon distribution facility are “forced to pee in bottles or ...
OSHA resources to protect healthcare workers
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Natanael Melchor on Unsplash You might think that construction workers or manufacturing employees have the highest rate of wor...
Ohio Chamber of Commerce takes the lead on fighting addiction at work with launch of its Employer Opioid Toolkit
By Jon Hyman
Nearly 50,000 Americans lost their lives to opioid-related overdoses in 2016. Compare that figure to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which recorde...
Do you know what to do when an employee dies on the job?
By Jon Hyman
It’s news an employer never wants to deliver. “I’m sorry, but your spouse (or partner, child, or other family member) had an accident at w...
OSHA, what say you about Michael Phelps vs. Shark?
By Jon Hyman
This week is S hark Week on the Discovery Channel. And the marquee event of this year's Shark Week was Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps ...
OSHA suggests employer best practices for anti-retaliation programs
By Jon Hyman
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published recommended best practices to protect from retaliation employees who repor...
Common sense (sort of) prevails in Ohio over gun-owner discrimination law
By Jon Hyman
Last week, I reported on Ohio Senate Bill 199 / Sub. House Bill 48 , which would have elevated “concealed handgun licensure” to a protect...
Federal court denies injunction against new OSHA retaliation rules
By Jon Hyman
Stan Musial, Wade Boggs, Rod Carew, Honus Wagner, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio. Six of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball. And a...
Feds publish a Halloween trick for employers
By Jon Hyman
Have you seen Worker.gov ? It is a how-to manual for employees to file charges with the full gauntlet of federal labor-and-employment agenci...
OSHA doubles down against retaliation
By Jon Hyman
OSHA has had a busy October. First, it announced that it has delayed enforcement , until December 1, of the anti-retaliation provisions ...
OSHA publishes final rule on whistleblower complaints under the Affordable Care Act
By Jon Hyman
As I’ve previously documented in this space, OSHA does a whole lot more than just regulate workplace safety. Its other responsibilities in...
Will OSHA’s new whistleblower rules invalidate your settlement agreement?
By Jon Hyman
When an employer presents an agreement to an employee ancillary to the separation of that employee’s employment, or settles a claim assert...
OSHA's new Whistleblower Investigations Manual creates a huge burden for employers
By Jon Hyman
Image via Lifehack.org http://goo.gl/sn/VO1H We typically think of OSHA in terms of workplace safety. Safety, however, is only a small p...
Hey, look, it’s me on the Channel 5 news!
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of an interview with Megan Hickey of Cleveland’s Channel 5. We talked about OSHA’s new fines that took effect...
OSHA says “negative” to post-accident testing
By Jon Hyman
Buried in OSHA’s impending final rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses is this little nugget. OSHA believes th...
Ohio Supreme Court sides with workers’ comp fraud
By Jon Hyman
Ohio has a specific statute that protects injured workers from retaliation after filing a workers’ compensation claim. O.R.C. 4123.90 stat...
The attack on the NLRB's new joint-employer standard intensifies
By Jon Hyman
Last week was a good week for opponents of the NLRB’s new, and more liberal, joint-employer standard, announced last summer in Browning-Fe...
Does OSHA provide a defense for employee misconduct? It depends.
By Jon Hyman
As the saying goes, you can’t teach stupid. No matter what safety measure you put in place, your employees will do stupid things at work, an...