It’s Always Something: Dispatches from the front lines of the battle for workplace safety
Black Lung is Back: After almost being eradicated in the late 1990, black lung is back, with a vengeance. Epidemiologists at…
Alex Acosta
Budget
Chemical Safety Board
Congress
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
MSHA
NIOSH
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Whistleblowers
Trump’s Worker Safety & Health Budget Again Undermines Worker Safety & Health
Earlier this week, President Trump submitted his Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal. This is his second budget proposal and although…
Trump’s War on Coal (Miners) Continues
When I noted last week that OSHA had come out of the new Fall 2017 Regulatory Agenda relatively unscathed, I…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
COSHCON17 — The Young and the Active — : The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the umbrella group…
Criminal Prosecution
Environmental Protection Agency
Health Care Workers
MSHA
Poultry Industry
Short Stuff
Short Stuff: Short, But Interesting
There’s always so much to talk about. Luckily, you have me to distill it for you. Zatezalo to MSHA: The…
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
Labor Unions
Mine Safety
MSHA
OSHA
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Catching Up: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety — Short Stuff
Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…
Chemical Plant Safety
Hurricane Harvey
Immigrants
International
MSHA
Office of Management and Budget
Recordkeeping
Short Stuff
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the War On Worker Safety: Short Stuff
The Incredible Disappearing Security Breach: Hard to know what to say about this. Remember that alleged security “breach” in OSHA’s…
Good Budget News (For a Change)
Today the full Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the FY 2018 Labor-HHS Funding Bill. The bill maintains OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH…
House Republican Budget Continues War on Worker Safety
The House of Representatives continued to wage its never-ending war on working people yesterday when the House Rules Committee voted…
Blankenship Sponsors Nauseating, Error-ridden Commercial
Some of you may have had the misfortune over the last few nights to see this commercial. Produced and paid…