There When You Need Them 8-21-2026
Imagine it’s Sunday noon, the kind of ordinary hour when nothing is supposed to happen, and you slice your finger…
NY Nurses Strike for Safety
Anyone who reads Confined Space regularly is likely depressed about the ongoing shrinking of OSHA’s ability to police working conditions…
Protecting Healthcare Workers: Caring for the Caregivers
Working in health care has always had its risks and challenges: exposure to infectious diseases, long hours, shift work, back…
CDC to Healthcare Workers: Drop Dead
The preventable deaths of thousands of front-line healthcare workers from COVID-19 was one of the many great tragedies of the…
Healthcare Worker Shootings: Where is OSHA’s Workplace Violence Standard?
Workplace violence continues to kill and injure this country’s caregivers while the latest round of healthcare worker homicides has renewed…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
Little Fires Everywhere…at Amazon Neither rain, no sleet, nor snow stops the US mail. Apparently for Amazon, that also includes…
Assaulted at Work: Workplace Violence Update
The Justice Department recently issued a report on Indicators of Workplace Violence 2019. Much of the information in the report…
Will Conviction of a Nurse Increase Medical Errors?
Right after Christmas in 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught made a series of medication errors that resulted…
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
OSHA withdraws its healthcare worker emergency temporary standard just when at-risk workers need it most.
Health Care Workers Hit Hard by COVID
It should come as no surprise that health care workers were hit hard by COVID-19. And if there was any…