Protecting Healthcare Workers: Caring for the Caregivers
Working in health care has always had its risks and challenges: exposure to infectious diseases, long hours, shift work, back…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
Working in health care has always had its risks and challenges: exposure to infectious diseases, long hours, shift work, back…
The preventable deaths of thousands of front-line healthcare workers from COVID-19 was one of the many great tragedies of the…
Workplace violence continues to kill and injure this country’s caregivers while the latest round of healthcare worker homicides has renewed…
Little Fires Everywhere…at Amazon Neither rain, no sleet, nor snow stops the US mail. Apparently for Amazon, that also includes…
The Justice Department recently issued a report on Indicators of Workplace Violence 2019. Much of the information in the report…
Right after Christmas in 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught made a series of medication errors that resulted…
OSHA withdraws its healthcare worker emergency temporary standard just when at-risk workers need it most.
It should come as no surprise that health care workers were hit hard by COVID-19. And if there was any…
Check out this excellent video on workplace violence against nurses by Newsy investigative reporter Patrick Terpstra. Aside from the jarring…
It’s the 21st century, so why are we still arguing about the safety of child labor? Continuing on its mission…