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Legal Update : Current Legal Issues Facing Workplace Safety and The Courts

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- Precedent-Setting Cases in Workplace Safety
- "Egregious Penalty" Policy: Violation By Violation Penalties
- "Willful" Violations Under The OSH Act
- Multi-Employer Liability Doctrine
- Current Federal Regulatory Developments and Rulings
- Review Commission suggests "Quick Fix" to Overcome Limitation on OSHA's Enforcement Authority
- Judicial Oversight of OSHA Rulemaking Priorities and Schedule
- Rulemakings — Health Standards
- Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica
- Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium
- Assigned Protection Factors — Respirators
- Rulemakings — Safety Standards
- Walking and Working Surfaces
- Electrical Installation Standards
- Information Collection Requests under Paperwork Reduction Act
- Guidance Documents
- Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)
- Ergonomics
- Major Decisions Involving the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Who Should Order This CD?
- Corporate Counsel
- Safety Managers
- Safety Engineers
- Facility Managers
- Human Resource Managers
- Industrial Hygienists
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Presenters and Panelists:
David Sarvadi, Esq.
Keller and Heckman LLP
Mr. Sarvadi works with clients in the areas of occupational health and safety, toxic substance management, pesticide regulation, employment law, and product safety. He has handled a variety of federal and state enforcement matters, such as OSHA citations, EPA Notice of Violations, TSCA consent orders, FIFRA SSURO, and EEOC Charges of Discrimination. He works with clients in developing, reviewing and auditing compliance programs in all of these areas, and in obtaining agency rulings on proposed or novel activities and questions, seeking interpretations of regulations as they apply to specific sets of facts. In the area of new product development, he helps clients prepare pesticide applications and other product submissions for review by federal and state agencies. He has been counsel to the National Coalition on Ergonomics from its inception.
He has a background in occupational safety and health, having worked as an industrial hygiene for more than 15 years and became a Certified Industrial Hygienist in 1978. He was a principal in a small consulting firm, and managed a corporate industrial hygiene and product safety program for a Fortune 500 company. In employment law matters, Mr. Sarvadi has counseled and represented employers on a wide range of employment issues, including employment contract issues, terminations, discrimination, and ADA compliance.
Lawrence P. Halprin, Esq.
Keller and Heckman LLP
Mr. Halprin draws on his technical and business background to counsel individual companies and trade associations in a broad range of workplace health and safety, environmental, product safety, and business transactions issues. He has a hands-on familiarity with the manufacturing environment and has represented clients in the aerospace, chemical, construction, electronics, food, machines, paper and forest products, pharmaceuticals, plastics, steel, telecommunications and transportation industries.
Mr. Halprin works with clients in developing, implementing and auditing environmental, health and safety management programs; he advises on legal compliance issues; and he represents clients in a broad range of enforcement and rulemaking proceedings at the federal and state levels. Mr. Halprin has been a strong advocate of re-inventing government, particularly with respect to regulatory reform. He has testified before Congress and participated in numerous government rulemakings in an effort to limit agency rules to what is necessary, practical and justified by appropriate risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. Mr. Halprin is a frequent writer and speaker on regulatory reform and a broad range of environmental, health and safety management issues.
Manesh K. Rath, Esq.
Keller and Heckman LLP
Manesh K. Rath represents management in Employment and OSHA law matters. Mr. Rath counsels and represents businesses and associations facing employment discrimination charges, wage and hour laws claims, wrongful termination lawsuits, OSHA citations, and most other areas of human resources law issues. Mr. Rath has authored employment law articles in several publications, including The Labor Lawyer, South Texas Law Review, and Inside Supply Management. He is a regular columnist in the Credit Union Executive Journal, and occasionally co-authors a regular OSHA law column in Compliance Magazine. He is the co-author of the seminal OSHA book, "Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook" (Government Institutes, 2001).
Mr. Rath is a frequent speaker on employment law and OSHA issues for numerous seminars, businesses and trade association conferences nationwide. He has instructed on employment and OSHA law issues at the college and graduate school level. On developing issues in employment law, he has been quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine and has spoken for television news.
In numerous cases, Mr. Rath has conducted litigation, motions and trials before state and federal courts and state and federal administrative agencies. He has handled cases in over twenty different jurisdictions throughout the nation. Mr. Rath is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Virginia State Bar, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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