Healthcare Worker Shootings: Where is OSHA’s Workplace Violence Standard?
Workplace violence continues to kill and injure this country’s caregivers while the latest round of healthcare worker homicides has renewed…
Of Dogs and Postal Workers: Part 2
The troubled relationship between mail carriers and dogs are kind of a cliché — but also a deadly hazard. Two…
OSHA Acts on Workplace Violence in Retail and Transportation
Most of the regulatory attention on workplace violence focuses on healthcare and social service workers. And for good reason. There…
Assaulted at Work: Workplace Violence Update
The Justice Department recently issued a report on Indicators of Workplace Violence 2019. Much of the information in the report…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safty
Amazon Prime: Hazardous Workplaces and Possible Fraudulent Conduct Here’s some rare good news. It’s well known that Amazon facilities are…
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Violence Against Transit Workers Transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence,…
OSHA’s Spring Regulatory Agenda: Meh!
The White House has released its Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda and I’m not jumping for joy. At this rate, it…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
On average, almost 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work.…
Dispatches From The Front Lines of Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Texas, Florida Oppose The Free Market: You know all that crap about the “free market” and job-killing regulations impeding the…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
OSHA Penalties are going up: OSHA’s maximum penalties are going up. Penalties for serious violations are rising from $13,653 to…