Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
A very new, yet very old and always deadly health specter is haunting American workers: acute silicosis. It’s not your…
Tim Walz: Champion of Working People
Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz will give his acceptance speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. In case you’re a…
Chemical Standards
David Michaels
Environmental Protection Agency
Infectious Diseases
Poultry Industry
Short Stuff
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace and Environmental Safety: Short Stuff
The High Price of Clean Rooms: Thousands of Marriott hotel workers are on strike in 23 hotels in Detroit, Boston,…
Chemical Standards
Congressional Review Act
David Michaels
Environmental Protection Agency
OSHA
Short Stuff
West Fertilizer Explosion
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Michaels to Musk: Manage safety at Tesla and production will fall into line: Former OSHA head Dr. David Michaels has…
Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections
Admit it. If they could, Trump and most Republicans would like to just get rid of OSHA, EPA the Consumer…
Congress
David Michaels
Ergonomics
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
House of Representatives
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Volks Rule
House OSHA Hearing: What You Missed and What It Meant. Part 1
In a fiery rebuttal of Republican and employer attacks on OSHA during the Obama administration, former Assistant Secretary Dr. David…
Alex Acosta
David Michaels
Department of Labor
Enforcement
Environmental Protection Agency
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
Regulations and Standards
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Year in Review
The Year In Review: 2017 Edition
With the end of 2017 comes the end of the 10th month of new, revised, rejuvenated version of Confined Space.…
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…
House Budget Devastates OSHA and MSHA Enforcement
The House of Representatives has released the details on worker safety and health funding in the FY 2018 Labor-HHS appropriations…
Lead Poisoning, Murder, and Trump’s Father-Daughter War on Workers: Short Stuff
Get the Lead Out: Joe Rubin at Huffington Post has a troubling story of how the California Department of Public…