Kelley Drye's Occupational Safety and Health Practice provides practical solutions and regulatory advice and counseling to our manufacturing clients on a broad range of industrial health and safety issues. At the regulatory level, we represent companies and trade association clients by engaging OSHA at all levels in its rulemaking process. By developing technically supportable and legally credible data and arguments, we have helped shape OSHA rules, such as Hazard Communication and Workplace Exposure Standards, in a way that protects both our clients' interests and workers' health and safety. We know OSHA’s regulations and we know our clients. We therefore are able to offer practical, productive regulatory advice and guidance on critical compliance questions.
We also work with our clients to develop comprehensive safety and health programs, commonly teaming up with our environmental experts to conduct joint environmental and occupational safety and health audits of our clients' facilities to assist them in proactive compliance management. When OSHA compliance issues arise, our lawyers are skilled in challenging citations when necessary, or settling them when appropriate.
We provide counseling and assistance in all major OSHA program areas, including:
- Hazard Communication
- Process Safety Management
- Lock Out/Tag Out program
- Ergonomics
- Blood Borne Pathogens
- Powered Industrial Trucks
- Fall Protection
- Electrical Safety
- Accident/Incident Loss Workday Reports
- Record Keeping
- Heat Stress
Examples of our work include:
- Leading a coalition of food manufacturers and marketing clients in negotiating changes to OSHA Ergonomics Rule;
- Leading a coalition of manufacturing clients in steel, shipbuilding and chromium chemicals industries rulemaking that involved proposed workplace exposure standards for hexavalent chromium;
- Intervening in litigation filed by citizens group and union related to promulgation of health standards for Cr(VI) occupational exposure;
- Conducting OSHA compliance audits at leather tanning and steel manufacturing facilities;
- Regular counseling of major manufacturing industries on complex OSHA workplace citations resulting from wall-to-wall compliance inspections.
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