When VPP Companies Kill
Over the past month, two workers have been killed at companies participating in OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs: Nucor Steel in…
What’s Going On Inside OSHA?
Back from vacation and checking in with people to see what’s going on a the agency charged with assuring the…
The Weekly Toll: Three Weeks and the List Goes On and On and On
Auto shop worker fatally pinned in Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (AP) — Police say the death of an auto shop worker…
What Does an Employer Do When a Worker Dies on the Job? Know Thyself.
Earlier this week, I wrote a piece critical of an article about worker fatigue that seemed to put the blame…
Solving the Problem of Worker Fatigue: Blame the Worker?
Sometimes you read stupid stuff and you just want to go back to bed and sleep, sleep, sleep. And speaking…
Ammonium Nitrate
Chemical Plant Safety
Environmental Protection Agency
OSHA
Process Safety Management
West Fertilizer Explosion
West Texas Explosion: Four Years Later
Dan Zak of the Washington Post has written a long feature article on the impact and aftermath of the West…
Lac-Mégantic Trial Moves Forward
The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people when a train carrying 73 cars of…
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
Labor Unions
Mine Safety
MSHA
OSHA
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Catching Up: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety — Short Stuff
Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…
Las Vegas
Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…
Lac Mégantic: Blame the Worker on Steroids
An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…