Child Labor: When Great Journalism Meets Bad Policy
Sometimes it takes good journalism or a bad disaster — or both — to encourage interest or activity or change…
Protect Workers; Don’t Blame Them
The Washington Post did the nation a service last week by recognizing that the near death of one relatively famous…
Asbestos: Still Legal and Still Killing
Asbestos dust hung in the air, collected on the beams and light fixtures and built up until it was inches…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
What’s happening in the world of workplace safety and health? Lots. And lots of work to be done. Here are…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safty
Amazon Prime: Hazardous Workplaces and Possible Fraudulent Conduct Here’s some rare good news. It’s well known that Amazon facilities are…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
Texas County Official Try To Protect Citizen From Pollution, but the State is Trying to Stop Them The goal of…
Three Deaths. Three Years. Same Site
When it comes to workplace safety and health, great journalism that thoroughly explores a problem is rare. When journalists put…
Beryllium
Deconstructing the Administrative State
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OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Weakening Beryllium Protections: How Business Influence Affects Regulatory Process
A new Reuters investigative piece describes how industry influence has gotten OSHA to weaken worker protections from exposure to beryllium.
Alex Acosta
Beryllium
Brett Kavanaugh
Congress
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Environmental Protection Agency
Journalism
Mine Safety
MSHA
Occupational Disease
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
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Year in Review
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…