Why Vote?
In case anyone hasn’t heard, there’s an election coming up next week. One of the messages that I try to…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Workers Can Participate in CSB Investigations: A major goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act is to encourage workers…
Mar-Jack: OSHA Inspectors “Are Not There For Us”
I wrote earlier this month about a court decision in the Mar-Jac case restricting OSHA’s ability to expand inspections at…
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Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda: No Surprises
Lots happening these days: the grizzly murder of a Saudi journalist, baseball championships (Go Dodgers!!), mid-term elections, Presidential temper tantrums…
OSHA Weakens Workers’ Protections Against Retaliation for Reporting Injuries
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a memo Thursday weakening workers’ protection against employer retaliation for reporting injuries and…
Harder Times for Poultry Workers
A 59-year-old employee at Allen Harim poultry plant in Harbeson, Delaware was killed last week from a serious head trauma…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff
The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…
Public Employees at Risk: America’s Second-Class Citizens
What do Moises Dominguez, Cameron Leeds and Charlie McLaughlin have in common? All of them are public employees listed in…
“We mean nothing to no one” — Slaughter In The Trenches
It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…
FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done
Happy New Year!!! Hope you’re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up,…