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…
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OSHA Update: All Quiet Now, But DOGE is Coming
If you closed your eyes and cleared you mind…you might think we were experiencing a typical Republican administration over at…
Kentucky Goes After Miners After Weakening OSHA
It’s Trump Time. But while Elon and the Trump regime pillage protections for workers, consumers and the environment, there is…