New OSHA Enforcement Policy Will Raise Penalties
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is known for its low penalties. Although OSHA’s maximum penalties have been gone up…
OSHA Gets Serious About Fall Protection
How often to you drive by workers up on the roof of a new construction or re-roofing who are not…
Is Workplace Safety Optional?
Everyone seems to have an opinion about OSHA these days — even those who barely knew the agency existed before…
Are Concerned Workers “Informers?”
In 1995, a little known Republican Congressman named John Boehner stated that “Most employers would describe OSHA as the Gestapo…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
When it comes to attacks on workplace safety and workers' rights, it's always something. Read all about it here. You…
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2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce
Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…
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OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…
Shot, Stabbed and Assaulted: Violence Against Nurses
Check out this excellent video on workplace violence against nurses by Newsy investigative reporter Patrick Terpstra. …
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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since she began…