Workers Needlessly Killed: Near and Afar
Just heard about a worker killed in a trench collapse about a dozen miles down the road from me. He…
BREAKING: Chemical Safety Board Survives
Good news! The House Appropriations Committee released its FY 2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations budget bill today and it fully…
Killing the Harwood Program Means Killing Workers
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services will vote Thursday on OSHA’s FY 2018 budget. Most of…
Save The Chemical Safety Board: Call Your Representatives NOW
The House Appropriations Committee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies will hold a mark-up on Wednesday, July 12 on the…
Weekly Toll: Suffocations, Shootings, Highways — again.
Fourth TECO worker dies after accident at plant Tampa, FL — A fourth person has died from the TECO Apollo…
Time To Act: Save Worker Training Grants, Health & Safety Research
If you haven’t yet done so, it’s time to do so. And if you have done so, do it again:…
Dispatches from the Front of the War on Worker Safety: Short Stuff
Major, Radioactive Oops: More than 30 nuclear experts inhaled uranium after radiation alarms and ventilation systems at a Department of…
States Get Safety Report Cards: Winners and Losers
It’s report card time and states are lining up to get their grades from the National Safety Council.The State of…
Losses at OSHA
George Yoksas The OSHA family suffered a huge loss last month when George Yoksas passed away at his desk at…
Enforcement Update: OSHA Still Embarrassed About Enforcing the Law
Press Release Drought Continues When Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta testified last month before the US Senate, he committed to…