OSHA Issues Tiny Penalty for Three Communication Tower Deaths
OSHA has fined Tower King II Inc. $12,934 for the death of three workers who were attempting to install a…
Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections
Admit it. If they could, Trump and most Republicans would like to just get rid of OSHA, EPA the Consumer…
Workplace Safety: What Didn’t Happen
I’m back after a couple of weeks of travel and instead of focusing about what happened over the last couple…
Blogging Outlook: Slim to None
I’m travelling again for the next couple of weeks and not likely to write much. So go back and read…
Climate Change: They Can’t Handle the Truth!
When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had the brilliant idea last year to convent a “Red-Team/Blue-Team” exercise to debate the science…
Chemical Plant Safety
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Regulations and Standards
Workplace Catastrophes
Written in Blood: Trump Appointee Reverses Lessons of Deepwater Horizon
They say that those who forget history are forced to repeat it. But when it comes to workplace and environmental…
OSHA to Employers Who Violate the Recordkeeping Rule: No Problem!
Fewer than half of all employers required to send their injury and illness information into OSHA last year sent in…
Dispatches From The Front Lines of the Battle For Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
More Freedom and More Catastrophic Fertilizer Explosions: After a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion at West Fertilizer exploded in 2013 killed…
Oops! Sessions on OSHA, Immigration and California
You have to hand it to Jeff Sessions. He knows his audience. Or at least he tries to. Yesterday Sessions…
Acosta: Who Needs Government Protections In the Era of Yelp?
Yesterday’s House Appropriations hearing on the Labor Department’s FY 2019 budget was a fairly low key — mostly boring —…