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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…

OSHA State Plan States

Oops! Sessions on OSHA, Immigration and California

March 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

You have to hand it to Jeff Sessions. He knows his audience. Or at least he tries to. Yesterday Sessions…

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It’s Always Something: Dispatches from the front lines of the battle for workplace safety

February 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

Black Lung is Back: After almost being eradicated in the late 1990, black lung is back, with a vengeance. Epidemiologists…

Automobile Industry Enforcement Penalties State Plan States

Indiana OSHA Cuts Penalty 94% for Fatality at Indiana Auto Parts Facility

January 29, 2018 Jordan Barab

Last October, Melissa Stephens went to work on third shift at Autonium in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She never came home to…

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Maryland Refuses to Protect Construction Workers From Deadly Silica Dust

January 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

Inhaling silica dust can cause silicosis, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney disease. OSHA’s 45 year old standards…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Safe and Health Workplaces: Short Stuff

January 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

The moral of this week’s stories is that if you find yourself eating pork chops at your fancy seaside hotel…

Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Process Safety Management State Plan States

California Makes Major Move to Protect Refinery Workers (and communities in their shadow)

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

It’s not all bad news out there. While Washington sucks workers down into an abyss of corporate anarchy, the State…