New Year’s Workplace Safety (and other) Resolutions for 2024
With great power comes great responsibility. Americans of all stripes — from powerful political and economic leaders to the common…
Final Shift for the 5-Day Work Week?
I love words. You could call me a logophile. The word that comes to mind as I pen this blog…
State Plan States, Foreign Born Hispanic Workers Lead the 2022 Death Toll
Earlier this week, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an increase in the number of workers killed in 2022,…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
So much happening, so little time to write about it. What’s been going on in the world of workplace safety…
In 2022, 15 Workers Died Every Day
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) reported today that 5,486 workers died…
Weekly Toll: Empty Seats for the Holidays
Many families are not having a happy holiday. How Workers Died Last Week: Killed by falling block, crushed in machinery,…
Union Demands that OSHA Revoke Failing South Carolina OSHA Program
OSHA State Plan states — you can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without ’em. Or can you? A labor…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
How Workers Died Last Week: Tree trimming, Falls, toxic chemicals, suicide, shootings, stabbing, machinery and vehicle incidents, On average, over…
Holiday Book List
Sorry, with Hanukah upon us and Christmas two weeks away, I’m a bit late this year, but in case you’re…
Fall Regulatory Agenda: Blah
BREAKING NEWS: The Fall 2023 Regulatory Agenda has been released! And that’s pretty much the beginning and end of the…