Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
This week: Explosions, falls, forklift, shootings, machines, vehicle-related incidents. Lots of ways for workers to die on the job. On…
Fertilizer Plant Fire Raises Memories of Tragedy and Regulatory Failures
The Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire raises difficult questions on our failure to issue adequate regulatory protections for workers and communities…
Dispatches From The Front Lines of Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Texas, Florida Oppose The Free Market: You know all that crap about the “free market” and job-killing regulations impeding the…
Weekly Toll: They Left It All At Work
This week: Explosions, falls, fires, suffocation, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents…and yet another trench collapse. Never short of different ways for…
Triumph of Hope over Evidence: The Biden Administration’s COVID Year in Review
Last week I took the opportunity of the first anniversary of President Biden’s worker protection Executive Order to review the…
OSHA Announces Permanent Health Care Worker COVID Standard
Never a dull moment here in Washington DC. OSHA has announced that it will have a COVID-19 standard covering health…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
This week: Explosions, falls, shootings, electrocution, vehicle-related incidents, drowning. Never short of different ways for workers to die on the…
One Year Later: Worker Protection From COVID
Today is the first anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) directing OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard to…
Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety
OSHA Penalties are going up: OSHA’s maximum penalties are going up. Penalties for serious violations are rising from $13,653 to…
Book Review “Code White” — The Hidden Epidemic Plaguing Health Care Workers
Just two weeks ago, Illinois Department of Family and Child Services social worker Deirdre Silas was brutally stabbed to death…