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Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

OSHA CARES: About the Boss

March 27, 2026 Jordan Barab
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll

Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll

March 24, 2026 Aina Atienza
Congress David Michaels Silica

Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll

March 17, 2026 Aina Atienza
Occupational Disease Workplace Illness

Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

March 13, 2026 Kathleen Rest
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OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
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Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Congress David Michaels Silica
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Fires and Firefighting Public Employees Weekly Toll
Death in the Workplace: The Weekly Toll
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Congress David Michaels Silica
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
David Michaels Immigrants Mine Safety Short Stuff

Lead Poisoning, Murder, and Trump’s Father-Daughter War on Workers: Short Stuff

June 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

Get the Lead Out: Joe Rubin at Huffington Post has a troubling story of how the California Department of Public…

Workplace Violence

“Verbally abused, cursed, spit on” New York’s Transit Employees

June 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

“My conductors, on a weekly basis, are either verbally or physically assaulted.” Two assaults were reported recently, he said, including…

Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Process Safety Management State Plan States

California Makes Major Move to Protect Refinery Workers (and communities in their shadow)

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

It’s not all bad news out there. While Washington sucks workers down into an abyss of corporate anarchy, the State…

Fissured Workplace Labor Unions

Truckers: Modern-Day Indentured Servants

June 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Despite the political setback last November, some of us still believe that the arc of justice for working people bends…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Tragedies Never End

June 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

Construction Worker Dies After Falling From Brooklyn Building: NYPD New York, NY — A construction worker fell from a building…

Workplace Violence

Nurse Stabbed: Victim of Deteriorating Mental Health Care System and No OSHA Workplace Violence Standard

June 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

“I’ve had a 33-year career and would say I’ve been assaulted at least 50 times if not more. I’ve been…

Congress OSHA Public Employees

City Worker Killed. Too bad. So Sad. Move on.

June 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just another tragic story in America? Plainville DPW worker killed in accident PLAINVILLE , MA — A public works employee…

Budget Centers for Disease Control Congress Health Care Workers Short Stuff Volks Rule Workplace Violence

Exporting Cancer, Killing World Cup Stadium Builders and More Destructive Budget Cuts: Short Stuff for Your Reading Pleasure

June 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Exporting Cancer and Miscarriages: An upsetting but must-read article by Cam Simpson at Bloomberg Business Week looks at American semi-conductor…

Confined Space OSHA

Father and Son Suffocate in Confined Space. Why?

June 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

All preventable workplace fatalities make me mad, but none make me madder than trench collapses and confined space fatalities. There…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Environmental Protection Agency Risk Management Program (EPA) Trump

EPA “Reconsiders” Whether to Protect Communities Surrounding Chemical Plants

June 14, 2017 Jordan Barab

But as the ….government has promoted the sector’s rapid growth, it has struggled with its impact on the environment. The…

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