Dispatches From The Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health
What’s going on in the world of workplace safety and health? Read on. It’s not all bad news.
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died over the past couple of weeks (Part 1): Forklift, skid steer and lawn mower incidents, fall, tornado,…
God Oversees Child Labor in Florida
With immigrant workers being deported or driven into hiding, Florida businesses need more workers. Where to look? How about getting…
It’s National Public Health Week
By Kathleen Rest We could all use some good news, right? So how about this: Americans live an average of…
Housekeeping
A few odds and ends that will help us go into battle together. NIOSH I want to publish more about…
April is Still the Cruelest Month
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine mine explosion that killed 29 miners. That was only…
The Purge: DOGE Kills NIOSH — And Workers
Trump’s war on workers is reaching full bloom. And not just a war on workers’ rights to organize or to…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week. Killed in highway construction, crushed by animal feed and concrete block, forklift incidents, crushed by…
114th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Still Lessons to Be Learned
I am reposting here a post that I wrote three years ago about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and the lessons…
Beshear Vetoes Kentucky OSHA Bill
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear yesterday vetoed a business-backed bill that will weaken Kentucky’s state OSHA program. The original legislation, which…