2025 Confined Space Year in Review
Ah, the hopeful dawn of a new year! This is a time when we look back fondly at the events…
Workplace Heat: The Hidden Toll of Injuries
Most people probably understand by now how dangerous it can be for workers to labor in high heat: heat stroke…
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Confined space, heat, cement roller, falls, electrocutions, coal mining, crane collapse, shootings, vehicle incidents. On…
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
I am an environmental lawyer who came to the challenge of ensuring worker safety and health midway through my career.…
Weekly Toll: Killed At Work
How workers died last week: Heat stroke, trapped in an industrial oven, tree care, silo collapse, overturned heavy equipment, electrocutions,…
OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences
The first week of the public hearing on OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Indoor and Outdoor Workplaces proposed…
House OSHA Hearing: Rhetoric vs. Reality
For those of you who missed it, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing last week titled “Reclaiming…
Baltimore DPW Cited For Heat Death, But No Penalty
Maryland OSHA (MOSH) cited the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) with a “serious violation” last week in connection with…
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2024 Confined Space Year in Review
As 2024 thankfully disappears into the sunset, now we can all look forward, with great confidence to….2029? The one definite…
Nevada’s Heat Standard: Much Ado About Little
When writing about Trump 2.0, I expressed the hope that OSHA state plan states would take the initiative to protect…