Smoke Gets In Your Lungs
These are not good times for those who care about workers’ safety and health. Democrats and labor feel frustrated, powerless…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Crushed by machinery, tiger attack, pipeline, farming, drowning, tree trimming, construction, vehicle incidents and shootings.…
Weekly Toll: End of Shift
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, electrocution, oil field explosion, firefighting, falls, drowning, helicopter crash, farming, tree trimming, construction,…
9/11 reflections: Mental Health as Worker Health
In September 2001, I found myself at the World Trade Center (WTC) site as part of the National Institute of…
Remembering the Heroes and Losses of 9/11
Every day is a good day to take a moment to recognize and be grateful for the multitude of workers…
Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics
In an important, but almost un-noticed opinion last month, the federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (covering Michigan,…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
How Workers Died Last Week: Machinery, tuberculosis, construction, forklift, skid steer, logging, vehicle incidents, stabbing and shootings. On average, over…
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Following the death of Milton, West Virginia city worker Paul Linville in a trench collapse last month, the city of…
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Fall is in the air, so it’s high time for the Trump administration to issue its Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda…
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Today we got our first peek of the House of Representatives FY 2026 Department of Labor (and NIOSH) budget proposal.…