10 Months With Obama: How the New Administration is Changing Workplace Safety

The Department of Labor is back in the enforcement business, the Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis told American Society of Safety Engineers annual conference attendees this summer. Now that the Obama administration has had some time to settle in, safety professionals should begin preparing for more proactive rulemaking and enforcement activity. Future legislation includes changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Act and specific standards on safety hazards, such as combustible dust.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify potential new workplace safety standards.
• Develop strategies to prepare for increased OSHA enforcement activity.
• Understand recent workplace safety-related court cases and how they change the business landscape.
• Identify areas inspectors will be focusing on over the next few years.

Presented by:

David G. Sarvadi joined Keller and Heckman in 1990. Mr. Sarvadi practices in the areas of occupational health and safety, toxic substance management, pesticide regulation, employment law, and product safety.

Mr. Sarvadi represents clients before a variety of federal and state enforcement agencies in legal proceedings involving OSHA citations, EPA Notice of Violations, TSCA consent orders, CPSC Notices, FIFRA Stop Sale Use and Removal Orders, and EEOC Charges of Discrimination. He works with clients in developing, reviewing, and auditing compliance programs in all of these areas, and in obtaining agency rulings on proposed or novel activities and questions, seeking interpretations of regulations as they apply to specific sets of facts. He has been counsel to the National Coalition on Ergonomics from its inception in 1994. He has a background in occupational safety and health, having worked as an industrial hygienist for more than 15 years and became a Certified Industrial Hygienist in 1978. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was a principal in a small consulting firm, and managed a corporate industrial hygiene and product safety program for a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Sarvadi was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to participate in a panel of the Institute of Medicine that was asked to review a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on the use of respirators in the U.S. He was asked to participate because of his expertise in law and industrial hygiene.

Who would benefit from this program:

• Safety Managers
• Safety Directors
• Safety Executives

Continuing Education:

• This program has been applied for CIH & CSP Continuing Education Credits. Earn .25 CM Points for CIHs and .156 Points for CSP and CSHM.

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Length: 2 hours