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Ross Edward Eisenbrey received a recess appointment by President Bill Clinton to serve as a Commissioner of the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), the White House announced recently.  He started work January 16 at the independent agency…

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) voted unanimously to extend and make permanent a pilot program requiring settlement talks in cases where employers face high penalties, Chairman Thomasina V. Rogers announced. Chairman Rogers said the agency also plans…

Chairman Thomasina V. Rogers today announced the release of a new, easy to read booklet to assist employees and their representatives in participating in Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) proceedings that resolve workplace safety and health disputes. “The…

President Clinton has announced his recess appointment of Stuart E. Weisberg as a Commissioner of the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. As a recess appointee, Mr. Weisberg serves until the end of the next session of the Senate…

Patricia A. Randle starts today as the new Executive Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Chairman Thomasina V. Rogers announced. Appointed by the Chairman, the Executive Director is the chief management official of the independent, quasi-judicial agency,…

Gary L. Visscher has been confirmed as a Commissioner of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). OSHRC is the federal, independent agency that issues decisions in disputes arising from inspections of American workplaces. He received Senate confirmation on…

President Bill Clinton has appointed Thomasina Rogers as Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.  Ms. Rogers became a Commissioner of the independent, federal decision-making body in October, 1998, with a term expiring in April 2003. OSHRC rules…

Hundreds of legal decisions resolving disputes over whether employers violated workplace safety and health rules can now be read, printed and researched using a compact computer disk with read only memory (CD-ROM), the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission announced…

Employers who receive job safety or health citations that include proposed penalties of $200,000 or more must participate in formal settlement talks under a pilot program, according to Stuart E. Weisberg, head of the federal agency that decides such cases….

The independent Federal agency that issues decisions in work place safety disputes will receive Vice President Albert Gore’s Hammer Award for “simplifying and expediting” its decision-making by implementing a process called E-Z Trial. Pat Wood, a representative of the Vice…