Change history

• September 10th, 2025
  • Edited Notes
  • Edited Notes regarding the statute
• August 14th, 2025
  • Edited Employee rights to participate in the regulatory and enforcement process
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries - and the evolving story in the warehouses and "fulfillment centers"
  • Removed Starting with the language of the Act and its enforcement from Occupational Safety and Health
• August 13th, 2025
  • Removed How does the workers’ comp system really work? from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Principles of workers’ compensation from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Origins of workers’ compensation from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Compensation for work-related injuries and illnesses from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Notes
  • Edited NLRB’s Response(s) to the Problem of Franchisees & Staffing Agencies
  • Edited Regulating COVID-19 in Workplaces
  • Edited Silica
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries - and the evolving story in the warehouses and "fulfillment centers"
  • Edited Criminal prosecutions under state law
  • Edited Federal Contracting and “Debarment”
  • Edited Wyndham Hotel Citations
  • Edited Pilgrim Pride Citations
  • Removed Introduction from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Added How does the workers' comp system really work?
• December 16th, 2024
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries - and the evolving story in the warehouses and "fulfillment centers"
• December 13th, 2024
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries - and the evolving story in the warehouses and "fulfillment centers"
  • Edited Principles of workers’ compensation
  • Edited Notes
  • Edited Chevron U.S.A. v. Echazabal, 536 U.S. 73 (2002)
  • Edited Fetal Protection Policies under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
  • Edited The Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  • Edited Notes & Questions
  • Edited Woodson v. Rowland, 329 N.C. 330, 407 S.E.2d 222 (N.C. 1991)
  • Edited The special problem of Covid-19 infections
  • Edited Introduction
  • Edited Prill v. NLRB, 835 F.2d 1481 (D.C. Cir. 1987)
  • Edited NLRB v. City Disposal Systems, Inc., 465 U.S. 822, 104 S.Ct. 1505, 79 L.Ed.2d 839 (1984)
  • Edited Whirlpool Corp. v. Marshall, 445 U.S. 1 (1980)
  • Removed Emily A. Spieler, Whistleblowers and Safety at Work: An Analysis of Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 32 ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L. 1 (2016) from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited NLRB’s Response(s) to the Problem of Franchisees & Staffing Agencies
  • Edited OSHA’s Response to the Problem of Temporary Workers
  • Edited Employee rights to participate in the regulatory and enforcement process
  • Removed Is OSHA Constitutional? What are the constitutional limitations on OSHA's ability to issue standards? from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Regulating COVID-19 in Workplaces
  • Edited Is COVID-19 an occupational disease?
  • Removed Optional Reading - Human Rights Watch from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited What do you think may come next?
  • Edited Silica
  • Edited The PEL problem continues
  • Edited Some state plans have attempted to address the problem of ergonomic risks through rulemaking
  • Edited OSHA’s attempts to issue an ergonomics standard
  • Edited Secretary of Labor v. Beverly Enterprises, OSHRC Docket Nos. 91-3144, 92-238, 92-819, 92-1257, 93-724, 19 O.S.H. Cas. (BNA) 1161 (O.S.H.R.C.), 2000 O.S.H.D. (CCH) P 32227, 2000 WL 34012177 (2000)
  • Edited Secretary of Labor v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc., OSHRC Docket No. 89-265, 17 O.S.H. Cas. (BNA) 1993 (O.S.H.R.C.), 1995-1997 O.S.H.D. (CCH) P 31301, 1997 WL 212599 (1997)
  • Edited Using the general duty clause to address MSD hazards – before an ergonomics standard was issued
  • Edited Dimensions of the problem
  • Edited Criminal prosecutions under state law
  • Edited Criminal penalties and prosecutions under federal law
  • Edited Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. OSHRC, 534 F.2d 541 (3rd Cir. 1976)
  • Edited Notes on enforcement of the general duty clause
  • Edited Notes & questions:
  • Edited P. Gioioso & Sons, Inc. v. OSHRC, 115 F.3d 100 (1st Cir. 1997)
  • Edited Sea World Citations
  • Edited Does it matter if workplaces get inspected?
  • Edited Marshall v. Barlow’s Inc., 436 U.S. 307 (1978)
  • Edited Diagrams of the standard setting process
  • Edited Safety Standards
  • Edited AFL-CIO v. OSHA, 965 F.2d 962 (11th Cir. 1992) ("The Air Contaminants Case")
  • Edited American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc., v. Donovan, 452 U.S. 490 (1981) ("The Cotton Dust Case")
  • Edited What happened next with regard to benzene?
  • Edited OSHA and Risk Assessment
  • Edited Evaluating Risk – What is Safe?
  • Removed Counting matters: implications of undercounting in the BLS survey of occupational injuries and illnesses from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Occupational Safety and Health Glossary from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited A brief note on the rights and responsibilities of workers
  • Edited The Office of the Solicitor of Labor
  • Edited Congressional Review Act
  • Edited OSHAct Enforcement
  • Edited General Duty Clause
  • Edited Standards
  • Edited Emily A. Spieler, “Occupational Safety and Health Law,” in Levy, Wagner, Rest & Weeks, eds., PREVENTING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE AND INJURY, 2d ed. (2004)
  • Edited Introduction to the history of occupational safety and health
  • Removed Questions for Discussion from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Lochner v. People of the State of New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
  • Edited Holden v. Hardy, 169 U.S. 366 (1898)
  • Added Counting matters: implications of undercounting in the BLS survey of occupational injuries and illnesses - PubMed
• September 20th, 2024
  • Edited Notes
  • Edited Introduction
  • Edited NLRB v. City Disposal Systems, Inc., 465 U.S. 822, 104 S.Ct. 1505, 79 L.Ed.2d 839 (1984)
  • Edited NLRB’s Response(s) to the Problem of Franchisees & Staffing Agencies
  • Edited OSHA’s Response to the Problem of Temporary Workers
  • Edited Employee rights to participate in the regulatory and enforcement process
  • Removed Primed for Pain from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Is OSHA Constitutional? What are the constitutional limitations on OSHA's ability to issue standards?
  • Removed Politics and public health from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed The example of Massachusetts from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed States without approved state plans from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed The example of California from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed State plan states from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed The PANDEMIC – PART II – What did the states do? from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed What do the data tell us about OSHA enforcement relating to the coronavirus from 2020 and thereafter? from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Moving into 2022 from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed OSHA & Pandemic Year 2 (2021) from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Regulating COVID-19 in Workplaces
  • Edited Is COVID-19 an occupational disease?
  • Removed Federal regulation of infectious diseases in the workplace – before the coronavirus pandemic from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed The SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC – PART 1 – Federal OSHA from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed State criminal prosecutions from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Chapter 5: Providing a deep dive into one OSHA litigated case from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited What do you think may come next?
  • Edited Beryllium
  • Edited Silica
  • Edited The PEL problem continues
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries - and the evolving story in the warehouses and "fulfillment centers"
  • Edited Some state plans have attempted to address the problem of ergonomic risks through rulemaking
  • Edited Counting matters
  • Edited General duty cases involving ergonomic hazards, continuing after the death of the standard
  • Edited OSHA’s attempts to issue an ergonomics standard
  • Edited Using the general duty clause to address MSD hazards – before an ergonomics standard was issued
  • Edited Dimensions of the problem
  • Edited Criminal penalties and prosecutions under federal law
  • Edited Federal Contracting and “Debarment”
  • Edited Civil Penalties under the OSH Act
  • Edited Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. OSHRC, 534 F.2d 541 (3rd Cir. 1976)
  • Edited A note on employers’ defenses
  • Edited Notes on enforcement of the general duty clause
  • Edited Caterpillar Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 122 F.3d 437 (7th Cir. 1997)
  • Edited National Realty and Construction Company, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 489 F.2d 1257 (D.C. Cir. 1973)
  • Edited Notes & questions:
  • Edited P. Gioioso & Sons, Inc. v. OSHRC, 115 F.3d 100 (1st Cir. 1997)
  • Edited Aerospace Testing Alliance v. OSHRC, 371 Fed.Appx. 568 (6th Cir. 2010)
  • Edited Marshall v. Barlow’s Inc., 436 U.S. 307 (1978)
  • Edited Diagrams of the standard setting process
  • Edited Notes & Questions
  • Edited Evaluating Risk – What is Safe?
  • Edited Problems for discussion
  • Edited Rights and responsibilities of workers
  • Edited OSHA Enforcement
  • Edited General Duty Clause
  • Edited Standards
  • Edited Emily A. Spieler, “Occupational Safety and Health Law,” in Levy, Wagner, Rest & Weeks, eds., PREVENTING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE AND INJURY, 2d ed. (2004)
  • Edited David Michaels and Gregory Wagner, “Work, Health and Well-Being,” in Howard Frumkin, ed., ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL (2015)
  • Edited Questions for Discussion
  • Added Criminal prosecutions under state law
• September 12th, 2023
  • Removed Whitman from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed International Union from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed NFIB from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Removed Cass Sunstein from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited Is OSHA Constitutional? What are the constitutional limitations on OSHA's ability to issue standards?
  • Edited OSHA & Pandemic Year 1 (2020)
  • Edited Is COVID-19 an occupational disease?
  • Edited Federal regulation of infectious diseases in the workplace – before the coronavirus pandemic
  • Edited Introduction
  • Removed OSHA v. UHS of Westwood Pembroke from Occupational Safety and Health
  • Edited What do you think may come next?
  • Edited Silica
  • Edited The problems persist: the continuing story in the poultry and health care industries
  • Edited OSHA’s attempts to issue an ergonomics standard
  • Edited Dimensions of the problem
  • Edited Criminal penalties and prosecutions
  • Edited Wyndham Hotel Citations
  • Edited Pilgrim Pride Citations
  • Edited Sea World Citations
• September 5th, 2023
  • Edited Pilgrim Pride Citation
  • Edited Sea World Citations
  • Edited Diagrams of the standard setting process
  • Edited Notes & Questions
  • Edited Safety Standards
  • Edited Evaluating Risk – What is safe?
  • Edited Problems for discussion
  • Edited Occupational Safety and Health Glossary
  • Edited OSHA Enforcement
  • Edited General Duty Clause
  • Edited Standards
  • Edited Emily A. Spieler, “Occupational Safety and Health Law,” in Levy, Wagner, Rest & Weeks, eds., PREVENTING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE AND INJURY, 2d ed. (2004)
  • Edited David Michaels and Gregory Wagner, “Work, Health and Well-Being,” in Howard Frumkin, ed., ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL (2015) [citations omitted]:
• April 28th, 2023
  • Casebook first published.