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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

June 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

Violence Against Transit Workers Transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence,…

COVID-19 State Plan States

Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)

January 10, 2022 Jordan Barab

I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…

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OSHA-MSHA Regulatory Agendas Released

December 10, 2021 Jordan Barab

For regulatory nerds, no days are more exciting than when the White House Office of Regulatory and Interagency Affairs (OIRA)…

COVID-19 State Plan States

Florida Tries to Secede from OSHA

November 17, 2021 Jordan Barab

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his belief that any government (or employer or school district) that…

COVID-19 State Plan States

OSHA Cracks Down On State Plans That Refuse to Adopt COVID Standard

October 20, 2021 Jordan Barab

Federal OSHA is cracking down on OSHA state plan states who refuse to adopt OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards.

Public Employees State Plan States

Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years

October 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…

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2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review

January 3, 2019 Jordan Barab

2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…

Enforcement OSHA State Plan States

Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce

November 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…

Journalism State Plan States

Are Kentucky — And Other OSHA State Plans — Failing Their Workers?

November 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA State Plans: love ’em or hate ’em, but we have to live with them. The Kentucky Center for Investigative…

Budget OSHA State Plan States Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

OSHA Update: Good Budget News from Congress and Mugno Still Missing

September 14, 2018 Jordan Barab

Good Budget News for OSHA Last June we reported some good budget news for OSHA from the Senate, and now…