OSHA Announces Permanent Health Care Worker COVID Standard
Never a dull moment here in Washington DC. OSHA has announced that it will have a COVID-19 standard covering health…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
This week: Explosions, falls, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents, drowning. Never short of different ways for workers to die on the…
One Year Later: Worker Protection From COVID
Today is the first anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) directing OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard to…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
OSHA Penalties are going up: OSHA’s maximum penalties are going up. Penalties for serious violations are rising from $13,653 to…
Book Review “Code White” — The Hidden Epidemic Plaguing Health Care Workers
Just two weeks ago, Illinois Department of Family and Child Services social worker Deirdre Silas was brutally stabbed to death…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
This week: Trench collapse, fires, shootings and stabbings, vehicle-related incidents, logging. Never short of different ways for workers to die…
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
There is a lot of very good analysis out there about the very bad decision by the Supreme Court to…
Preventing Deaths in the Season of the Trench
Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…
Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Standard, Leaves Workers Without COVID-19 Protection
The Supreme Court, in a predictable 6-3 decision, blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that required employees in businesses with…
Weekly Toll: New Year Rings In With Teen-age Workers Killed
This week: A 16 year-old, an 18 year-old and a 19 year-old worker were killed on the job last week.…