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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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2025 Holiday Book List

December 11, 2025 Jordan Barab
Enforcement

Baby It’s Cold Outside! 

December 10, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
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2025 Holiday Book List
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Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
Labor
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
2025 Holiday Book List
Books
2025 Holiday Book List
Baby It’s Cold Outside! 
Enforcement
Baby It’s Cold Outside! 
The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Construction Fall Prevention OIRA

Residential Construction: Death, Injury and Doing it the Right Way

May 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Kudos to Idaho Statesman Reporter Audrey Dutton for a first-rate article about the hazards of residential construction — how many…

Automobile Industry COSH Groups Ergonomics

Tesla: Futuristic Cars, Same Old Worker Injuries

May 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tesla may make shiny, new, innovative, futuristic American automobiles, but the relentless pace at which it pushes its workers is…

NIOSH Workers Compensation

Liberty Mutual Follow-up: Breaking Its Promises?

May 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

News that President Trump has slated NIOSH for a 40% cut sends shivers through anyone who thinks that strong, well-funded…

Budget Centers for Disease Control Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Health Care Workers OSHA Short Stuff Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Short Stuff: Eating Squirrels, Killing Health Care Workers and….

May 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

More Budget Follies – CDC Edition: We’ve discussed Trump’s FY 18 budget proposal. OSHA and MSHA don’t come out too…

Budget Chemical Safety Board Department of Labor MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Trump FY 18 Budget Slashes Research, Kills Harwood Training Program and Chemical Safety Board

May 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. — Jacob Lew…

Alex Acosta Office of Management and Budget Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Acosta Reassures Business Community: “The Labor Department will roll back regulations.”

May 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

Responding to withering criticism from his friends in the business community for allowing the Obama administration’s “fiduciary rule” to go…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

ICE Goes After Undocumented Worker Seeking Workers Compensation

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Every worker has a right to a safe workplace — whether they’re documented or not. And workers in many states…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Nothing Good Here

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

JCP&L employee dies after Freehold electrocution FREEHOLD, NJ – A Jersey Central Power & Light employee died after touching live…

Construction Do It Yourself OSHA Trench Collapse

Workplace Safety: Do It Yourself Edition

May 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Do you sit in a comfortable office all day, outraged by what you read in Confined Space, and wondering what…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

Ohio Comp Bill Encourages Employers to Hire Undocumented Workers

May 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

I’m not sure that was their intention, but what could make hiring undocumented workers more attractive than passing a law…

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