Kelley Drye provides practical solutions and regulatory counseling to our clients on a broad range of industrial health and safety issues. We represent companies and trade associations 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 Hexavalent Chromium Workplace Exposure Standards, in a way that protects our clients' interests and workers' health and safety.
We have comprehensive OSHA experience, 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
- Workplace Exposure Standards
Representative Experience
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Lead a coalition of
food manufacturers and marketing clients in negotiating charges to the OSHA
Ergonomics Rule.
- Led 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 a citizens group and union related to the promulgation of
health standards for hexavalent chromium occupational exposure.
- Conducting OSHA
compliance audits at leather tanning and steel manufacturing facilities.
- Regular counseling of
major manufacturing industries on complex OSHA workplace citations from
wall-to-wall compliance inspections.
- Represented a metal fabrication manufacturer in administrative litigation over various alleged regulatory violations resulting in a fatality.
