Tag: hazards

OSHA Proposes National Worker Heat Stress Rule to Protect Indoor and Outdoor Workers from Extreme Heat

Jon Redmond /July 8, 2024

In what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling a “significant step toward a federal heat standard to protect workers”, the agency is issuing a Notice of Proposed…

RHP’s Ashish Jachak and Frank Pagone Attend 2024 Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting

Jon Redmond /April 4, 2024

At the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 63rd Annual Meeting we heard about the latest and greatest of science and technology in the field of chemical, regulatory, and academia toxicology while…

Two States Take Steps to Ban PFAS Following US EPA Publishing of Final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for PFAS

Jon Redmond /March 19, 2024

Rule Summary for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Late last year, on October 11, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting…

ANSI/ASSP Issues First Voluntary Consensus Standard for Construction Workers and Demolition Operations

Jon Redmond /March 13, 2024

As the Summer of 2024 approaches, employers in the construction and demolition industries can better prepare by following the newly published heat stress management guidance from the American National Standards…

RHP’s Ashish Jachak Attends 2023 Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) Conference: Highlights Regulatory Landscape of Forever Chemicals and Use of Exposures and Hazards to Guide Smarter Polymers

Jon Redmond /February 29, 2024

What I heard at the 2023 Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) conference in Washington, D.C. TSCA and Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) of Phthalates Kelsey Hendrixson (Noblis) presented a new draft…