ORC in the News

At the “OSHA Listens” public meeting, held March 4 in Washington, DC and attended by a large number of OSHA stakeholders, ORC Senior Vice President Frank White outlined three ways the agency could improve its policies and programs.

At a March 3 Informal Public Hearing in Washington, DC, ORC Senior Vice President Frank White and EHS Networks Director Ann Brockhaus voiced support for OSHA’s proposal to align its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

OSHA has issued a proposed rule to align the agency’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) with provisions of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). Published in the Sept. 30, 2009 Federal Register (74 FR 50280), the proposal requested interested parties to submit comments by Dec. 30.

David Michaels, President Obama's nominee to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, could ultimately move the agency toward an approach that vests with employers more responsibility for identifying and assessing risks, ORC Senior Vice President Frank White, told the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), in an article published August 13 in the Safety and Health Reporter. To read the rest of Mr.

ORC Senior Vice President Frank White is quoted in an article devoted to OSHA reform that appears in the June 4 issue of the Bureau of National Affairs’ Occupational Safety and Health Reporter.  Mr. White was on a panel of experts at the 2009 American Industrial Hygiene Association conference, and the panel endorsed, among other ideas,  an employer risk assessment standard as a new regulatory approach for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  

 ORC Senior Consultant Dee Woodhull has written a column that is published in the May edition of ISHN.

 Entitled, "EHS Worldwide Horizons: Savvy Pros Flag Process Problems," the article explains how EHS professionals can go from being regarded as expendable to valued as essential. 

At a May 7 hearing held by the House Committee on Education and Labor, ORC Worldwide Senior Consultant Ann Brockhaus explained how many leading companies are ensuring that workers are protected from emerging infectioius diseases, such as the H1N1 influenza virus. 

ORC Worldwide has developed a new interactive online resource where EHS research results and best practice information will be publicly available. The Center of Excellence, built on a wiki platform, is designed to foster collaboration among all EHS stakeholders: www.orcehs.org

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