Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
“We need to be protecting our workers as much as protecting our shores.” So says former OSHA head Dr. David…
House Budget Devastates OSHA and MSHA Enforcement
The House of Representatives has released the details on worker safety and health funding in the FY 2018 Labor-HHS appropriations…
Weekly Toll: Made In America
Five fatalities in Pennsylvania this week and three in Colorado. Work accident kills Mansfield business owner MANSFIELD, PA — A…
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Harwood’s Last Gasp? OSHA Announces Cruel and Bizarre Grant Round
OSHA released a grant announcement last week for its Susan Harwood Worker Training Grants. But don’t get your hopes up.…
Lost Both Arms and a Leg: Life and Death for Farmworkers
Intrepid Idaho Journalist Showcases Hazards Facing Farmworkers Dairy workers drown in manure pits. Farmworkers poisoned by pesticides. Limbs amputated. Electrocutions.…
VPP: An Important Tool or a Waste of Scarce OSHA Resources?
OSHA will hold a stakeholder meeting on Monday (and another in the Fall) to discuss how to improve the agency’s…
House Releases Labor Budget Bill — And It’s Even Worse than Trump’s
You thought Trump’s budget proposal was bad for OSHA? Well, our Republican friends in the House of Representatives have issued…
Workers Needlessly Killed: Near and Afar
Just heard about a worker killed in a trench collapse about a dozen miles down the road from me. He…
BREAKING: Chemical Safety Board Survives
Good news! The House Appropriations Committee released its FY 2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations budget bill today and it fully…
Killing the Harwood Program Means Killing Workers
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services will vote Thursday on OSHA’s FY 2018 budget. Most of…