A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Even bloggers need vacations. I’ll be away from Confined Space World Headquarters for the next couple of weeks, spending more time with my family in a warmer climate. Of course, I’ll have my laptop with me in case OSHA leadership decides to take advantage of my absence to make any newsworthy announcements. And who knows?…
Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Andrew Ba Trim published an excellent front page article today chronicling Donald Trump’s largely successful effort to shrink the federal government: “By the end of September, all Cabinet departments except Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and Interior had fewer permanent staff than when Trump took office in January — with…
I try to write about a lot of things, but can’t get to everything. Happily, there are a lot of others out there writing about workplace safety and providing valuable resources for workers and employers. And Twitter isn’t just a tool for the Mad King to display his lack of wisdom; it’s also a useful…
I was on WTOP Radio at noon today to talk about OSHA’s removal of the list of workplace fatalities from the home page of the website. Here’s the tape. The first question was cut out, but it was something like “Why did OSHA pull the fatalities off the home page and what were they replaced…
Sometimes blogging is like shouting into the wind. All you hear are echos of your own voice. Then silence. But, then sometimes you actually get a response. I’ve felt like I’ve been shouting into the wind for months, ranting about the evidence-challenged ATF statement over a year ago that the 2013 fire at West Fertilizer…
Since I restarted this blog last month, I’ve mostly focused on policy and political issues, because, well….we’ve been overwhelmed by daily attacks by Congress and the Trump administration that undermine workplace safety standards and OSHA’s budget. But ultimately, we’re only fighting the policy and political issues because working people are getting hurt and killed every day in the…
Introducing Confined Space 2.0. I was hoping to wait a bit longer to start this up, but with crippling budget cuts being proposed, Bannon’s plans to deconstruct the administrative state (to be replaced by the corporate state), repeals of recently issued OSHA regulations and “regulatory reform” initiatives in the White House and Congress that would…