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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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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
Congress David Michaels Silica
Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers
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Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Deconstructing the Administrative State Railroads

East Palestine Part 1: The Causes

March 1, 2023 Jordan Barab

Please excuse the length of this post. But once I went down the rabbit hole, I couldn’t get out. To…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Railroads

East Palestine Part 2: Politics and the Road Ahead

March 1, 2023 Jordan Barab

Continued from Part 1: The Causes The Politics: Continued Warfare or a New Age of Bipartisanship? The politics of the…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

February 27, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last week, workers were killed in falls, machinery, chemical plant explosion, shootings, plane crashes, electrocutions and vehicular incidents. On average,…

Amazon Dispatches (Short Stuff) Short Stuff State Plan States Trench Collapse Workplace Violence

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

February 24, 2023 Jordan Barab

Amazon Cited Again….And Again…And Again There should no longer be any doubt in anyone’s mind — even in Jeff Bezos’s…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

February 20, 2023 Jordan Barab

In this report, workers died tree-trimming incidents, grain bin, falls, drowning, electrocution, shootings and vehicular incidents. On average, over 100…

Lac Megantic Railroads

Rail Disaster: For a Worst-Case Scenario, Look North

February 18, 2023 Jordan Barab

The East Palestine rail disaster is bad. But it’s not even close to a worst-case scenario. We have seen worse,…

Child Labor Meatpacking & Poultry Workers

Labor Department Cracks Down on Child Labor

February 17, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last Fall, I wrote about a Labor Department injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) for illegally employing 31 children…

Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

“Modernizing” OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program: Does it Make Sense?

February 16, 2023 Jordan Barab

OSHA announced today that it is inviting “the public and workplace safety stakeholders to share their comments on how the…

Agriculture Child Labor Wage and Hour Division

Labor Shortages? How About More Child Labor?

February 15, 2023 Jordan Barab

Last Fall, I wrote about an upsetting Labor Department injunction filed in federal court against Packers Sanitation Services (PSSI) Inc.…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

February 13, 2023 Jordan Barab

I was away for a couple of weeks, so running behind. In this report, workers died from falls, drowned, were…

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