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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

July 18, 2023 Jordan Barab

Lots happening in the world of workplace safety and health. OSHA and MSHA are making progress on several standards and…

Agriculture Child Labor Wage and Hour Division

Labor Shortages? How About More Child Labor?

February 15, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last Fall, I wrote about an upsetting Labor Department injunction filed in federal court against Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) Inc.…

Agriculture Child Labor

Three Workers Dead in Grain Silo, Including a Child. OSHA Can Do Nothing

September 22, 2022 Jordan Barab

In what may be the largest mass casualty workplace event this year, three workers were killed after being trapped in…

Agriculture Chemical Plant Safety Process Safety Management West Fertilizer Explosion

Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers

December 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers in chemical facilities and those living nearby can sleep easier after the US Congress declined to include language in…

Agriculture Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home

December 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.

Agriculture Occupational Disease Poultry Industry Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Your job or you unborn child. Your job or your bladder. Your job or your life. These are the choices…

Agriculture Labor Labor Unions Poultry Industry

Cheer Up: More Bad News

September 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

The sorry attempt to place Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court isn’t the only bad news depressing us here at…

Agriculture Construction Criminal Prosecution Environmental Protection Agency Heat Short Stuff Workplace Violence

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

September 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

“They Treat Us Like Mules”: “They will break you down and then throw you away.” That’s what construction worker Ernesto…

Agriculture Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Enforcement Environmental Protection Agency Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

August 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since…

Agriculture Deconstructing the Administrative State Environmental Protection Agency Regulations and Standards

“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA

August 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…