Failing to Protect America’s Workers: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, helicopter crash, hit-and-run, falls, farming, mowing, drowning, rollovers, vehicular collisions and shootings. On…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Are you dreading the long boring weekend coming up? Well, never fear. Confined Space is providing you with lots of…
Heat, Champagne Socialism and Faux Empathy: The Republican Circus
The Republican-controlled House Education and Labor Workforce Committee held a very interesting and helpful circus hearing yesterday on the “burden”…
The Dog Days of Summer and the Workers Who Can’t Escape Them
The Dog Days of Summer – July 3-August 11. The phrase was named after Sirius — the Dog Star —…
Mourning for Preventable Deaths: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, grain bin, heat(?), tree care, electrocutions, lightning, flooding, industrial incidents, grain bin incident,…
Heat Related Death? Who Knows?
Careful readers of yesterday’s Weekly Toll may have noted the death of UPS driver Umeshkumar Thakkar on July 20 near…
Republicans Try to Smother OSHA Heat Standard Under General Duty Clause
To the surprise of no one, the Republican-controlled House Education and Workforce Committee yesterday approved H.R. 6213, the Heat Workforce…
House Republicans Attempt to Kill OSHA Heat Standard
As we once again melt into the hottest summer ever recorded (but probably the coolest summer we will ever experience…
New Regulatory Agenda: No Good News for Heat or Silica
Our long wait is over. The White House Office of Management and Budget has finally issued its latest Regulatory Agenda.…
Season of Sunshine—and Risk
There were two things to celebrate on June 21: Father’s Day and the first day of summer. I thought a…