Bhopal: 39 Years Later and Still Hurting
Thirty-nine years ago, the city of Bhopal, India suffered the worst chemical disaster in world history. I wrote a long…
Asbestos: Still Legal and Still Killing
Asbestos dust hung in the air, collected on the beams and light fixtures and built up until it was inches…
Ammonium Nitrate
Chemical Plant Safety
Chemical Safety Board
Environmental Protection Agency
Process Safety Management
West Fertilizer Explosion
Fertilizer Plant Fire Raises Memories of Tragedy and Regulatory Failures
The Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire raises difficult questions on our failure to issue adequate regulatory protections for workers and communities…
Oil Field Workers: “We’ve just got to find a way not to kill them.”
American workers drilling for oil have dirty, dangerous jobs that often kills them. In return, they're covered by weaker OSHA…
Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers
Workers in chemical facilities and those living nearby can sleep easier after the US Congress declined to include language in…
Bhopal
“Bhopal” For health and safety activists and public health people, that word sends shivers up our spines. Thinking of the…
Ammonium Nitrate
Chemical Plant Safety
OSHA
Process Safety Management
Short Stuff
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff
The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…
Weekly Toll: Workers Die at Gas Stations, Construction Sites, Bowling Alleys, Chicken Processing Plants, in Rivers and Falling off Buildings
Boom truck hits power lines in Flagler, electrocuting 2 workers PALM COAST, Fla. – Two construction workers were electrocuted Monday…
Don’t Want to be Incinerated in Your Sleep? Too Bad
Well there’s some very bad news for those of you who don’t want to be blown to smithereens in your…
Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule
In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama…