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OSHA issues a final rule on electrical safety, and stakeholders are hoping the agency maintains current Process Safety Management exemptions. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Just how much money is the Department of Labor requesting for fiscal year 2015? Enough to make a pharaoh or two happy.

Read about what Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez had to say about OSHA at a recent budget hearing, as well as a summary of the agency’s ongoing hearings for its proposed Silica Standard, in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Hollywood: Where dreams are made, stars are born and, sometimes, the action gets a little too real.

Read interpretations of OSHA’s revised Hazard Communication Standard, and find out who is the newly confirmed Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission member in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

One expert claims OSHA lacks the resources to ensure safety in the refinery industry. Read about this story and other news in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

The next three weeks are shaping up to be interesting for OSHA, as far as its proposed rule on crystalline silica is concerned.

President Barack Obama has released his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal for the Department of Labor. Read a breakdown of OSHA’s proposed funding here.

The proposed budget for OSHA has been released, and the comment period for a proposed agency standard was given an extension. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.