Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Problem with the job? Go kill yourselves: You’ve all heard the phrase “Your job of your life,” but Richland County,…
Serial Violator Blames OSHA Penalties for Layoffs
Aluminum Shapes, a New Jersey company, has the rare distinction of being the subject of one of only ten enforcement-related…
Blogging Forcast: Light
The overlords of Confined Space World Headquarters have given the entire staff a week and a half off. (That's just…
Ammonium Nitrate
Chemical Plant Safety
Government Accountability Office
Process Safety Management
Workplace Violence
GAO to OSHA: What’s Up With Workplace Violence and Ammonium Nitrate?
The Republican Congress may not be fulfilling it responsibility to provide oversight over a Republican-controlled OSHA, but the Government Accountability…
WTF?! Friday Fall Protection Edition
There’s an old saying, I’m pretty sure from Confucius: “Take heed. It is always a bad idea to do an…
Press Releases Reduce Workplace Injuries. So Why Has OSHA Stopped Issuing Them?
I’ve been writing (over and over again) about OSHA’s failure to issue more than a tiny number of enforcement-related press…
Trump Heads to Coal Country to Give Best Speech Ever Made
President Trump is heading to West Virginia coal country tonight to give the best-speech-ever-made to the largest crowd the state…
Alex Acosta
Budget
Environmental Protection Agency
International
Mine Safety
OSHA
Short Stuff
West Fertilizer Explosion
Whistleblowers
Dispatches From the Front Lines Of Worker Safety and Health: Short Stuff
EPA Suffers From Shortage of Common Sense: Attorneys General from 11 states — New York, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…
Weekly Toll: And Congress Wants to Cut OSHA’s Enforcement Budget?
Worker killed after collision with SUV on Fargo airport runway FARGO, ND — A contract worker painting stripes on the…