OSHA & MSHA Get Leaders: A Good Thing?
OSHA and MSHA finally have leaders. David Keeling was confirmed by the Senate earlier this week to be the new…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job
Logging, mining, firefighting, confined space, lightning, highway construction, crushed by stone slab, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
There is a lot happening in the world of workplace safety and health. . Miners Rally to Force Silica Protections…
The Dark Side of the Chip
By Chip Hughes When Maria, a 32-year-old technician in Phoenix, first started at the sprawling TSMC fab, she thought she…
Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Six public employees killed, not including four fire and police officials. Also, forklift, drowning, highway…
Government Shutdown: Trump 2.0 Style
So, once again we ask “Will the Government shut down at midnight tomorrow?” And more important, what does this mean…
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…