Solving the Problem of Worker Fatigue: Blame the Worker?
Sometimes you read stupid stuff and you just want to go back to bed and sleep, sleep, sleep. And speaking…
Ammonium Nitrate
Chemical Plant Safety
Environmental Protection Agency
OSHA
Process Safety Management
West Fertilizer Explosion
West Texas Explosion: Four Years Later
Dan Zak of the Washington Post has written a long feature article on the impact and aftermath of the West…
Lac-Mégantic Trial Moves Forward
The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people when a train carrying 73 cars of…
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
Labor Unions
Mine Safety
MSHA
OSHA
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Catching Up: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety — Short Stuff
Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…
Las Vegas
Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…
Lac Mégantic: Blame the Worker on Steroids
An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…
Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure
Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…
Who Is Responsible For Worker Safety?
One of the free services we provide here at Confined Space world headquarter is helping journalists write better articles. Here…
I’m outa here….
For a couple of weeks… Blogging will be light over the next couple of weeks as I head out on…
Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home This Week
68-year-old man killed in workplace accident in Hall County Atlanta, GA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.…