Shutting Down Government — and Worker Protections
As we careen into yet another pointless and preventable government shutdown, I’m republishing a post I wrote before the last…
Criminal Prosecution
Dipatches (Short Stuff)
Heat
Job Postings
Regulatory Process
Short Stuff
State Plan States
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health
Bring OSHA into the 21st Century The Occupational Safety and Health Act just had its 52nd birthday. OSHA was born…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Amazon Cited Again….And Again…And Again There should no longer be any doubt in anyone’s mind — even in Jeff Bezos’s…
Why Can’t the City Enforce Contractor Safety Standards?
Welcome to another chapter of Do-It-Yourself-Neighborhood-Health-and-Safety-Inspector. As many of you know, while walking to dogs, I’m constantly running across unprotected…
Budget
Fires and Firefighting
Heat
Immigrants
International
Public Employees
Short Stuff
State Plan States
Workplace Violence
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Violence Against Transit Workers Transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence,…
Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)
I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…
Heat
Infectious Diseases
MSHA
Process Safety Management
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Silica
State Plan States
Workplace Violence
OSHA-MSHA Regulatory Agendas Released
For regulatory nerds, no days are more exciting than when the White House Office of Regulatory and Interagency Affairs (OIRA)…
Florida Tries to Secede from OSHA
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his belief that any government (or employer or school district) that…
OSHA Cracks Down On State Plans That Refuse to Adopt COVID Standard
Federal OSHA is cracking down on OSHA state plan states who refuse to adopt OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards.
Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…