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…
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Year in Review
2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce
Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…
Are Kentucky — And Other OSHA State Plans — Failing Their Workers?
OSHA State Plans: love ’em or hate ’em, but we have to live with them. The Kentucky Center for Investigative…
OSHA Update: Good Budget News from Congress and Mugno Still Missing
Good Budget News for OSHA Last June we reported some good budget news for OSHA from the Senate, and now…
Oops! Sessions on OSHA, Immigration and California
You have to hand it to Jeff Sessions. He knows his audience. Or at least he tries to. Yesterday Sessions…
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…
Indiana OSHA Cuts Penalty 94% for Fatality at Indiana Auto Parts Facility
Last October, Melissa Stephens went to work on third shift at Autonium in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She never came home to…
Maryland Refuses to Protect Construction Workers From Deadly Silica Dust
Inhaling silica dust can cause silicosis, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney disease. OSHA’s 45 year old standards…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Safe and Health Workplaces: Short Stuff
The moral of this week’s stories is that if you find yourself eating pork chops at your fancy seaside hotel…