Rana Plaza: Improvement for Garment Workers after Four Years?
Today marks four years since the catastrophic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 workers. And before…
Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
Another week of workers being killed in the workplace by being crushed, dying in falls, killed in traffic accidents, shot,…
OSHA Enforcement: OSHA Continues to Protect Employers from Hazardous Press Releases.
Twenty more companies succeeded over the past week in hiding federal OSHA enforcement actions from the withering public scrutiny that…
Radium Girls: Glowing and Dying
If you caught “Weekend Edition” on NPR this morning, you heard a fascinating, but tragic interview with Kate Moore about…
Hit the fu**ing Road Jack: Why we need a strong OSHA enforcement program.
This is not generally how a good company wants a supervisor to respond to a worker who reports unsafe conditions:…
Foxes, Henhouses and our Health
Earlier this week I reviewed a New York Times article on conflicts of interest among Trump political appointees that highlighted…
Your Job or Your Life
I just received an invitation to a Washington DC Workers Memorial Day event titled “No worker should have to sacrifice…
Congress gets front row look at death in the workplace
A Congressperson looking out the office window or crossing the street to the Capitol yesterday morning could would have witnessed…
Shaming OSHA
Well, if Mr. Sulu thinks it’s a big deal…..It seems that we here at Confined Space and you, our faithful…
Swamp Monster in the White House: See no evil, fix no evil.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank makes no secret about disliking Donald Trump. Instead of “draining the swamp” as he promised…