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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
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COVID-19 Supreme Court
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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
Labor Unions Railroads

Crippling Rail Strike Looms as Rail Companies Refuse to Address Workers’ Concerns

September 13, 2022 Jordan Barab

Rail companies' sceduling policies force railworkers to strike.

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

September 12, 2022 Jordan Barab

Yet another Trench Collapse. Workers dead in industrial incidents, rail crashes, shootings, electrocutions and vehicle incidents. On average, almost 100…

Congress Heat Regulations and Standards

Elise Stefanik and the Republican War on Workers

September 8, 2022 Jordan Barab

New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is a piece of work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who follows…

Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

September 6, 2022 Jordan Barab

COVID Keeping Millions of Workers Off the Job COVID continues to take a major toll on the economy, and specifically…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Labor Day and Families Mourn

September 5, 2022 Jordan Barab

Another WV mineworker killed, falls, machinery, chemical release, drowning, shootings, vehicular incidents and woman killed when hair drags her into…

OSHA Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards

OSHA Plans Chemical Plant Safety Stakeholder Meeting

September 1, 2022 Jordan Barab

September is shaping up to be chemical plant safety month. First, EPA has scheduled public hearings for September 26, 27,…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

August 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: falls, shootings, vehicles, tree work, electrocution, dog attack. On average, almost 100 workers are killed…

Amazon Heat MSHA

“I’m always worried the heat will kill me”

August 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

“I’m always worried the heat will kill me.” Those were the words of Fernando Castillo, a UPS driver after he…

Enforcement Fall Prevention

OSHA Gets Serious About Fall Protection

August 26, 2022 Jordan Barab

How often to you drive by workers up on the roof of a new construction or re-roofing who are not…

Environmental Protection Agency Process Safety Management Risk Management Program (EPA)

EPA Issues Chemical Plant Safety Proposal; Where is OSHA?

August 26, 2022 Jordan Barab

In the next round of a years-long game of regulatory ping-pong — with potentially catastrophic consequences — the Environmental Protection…

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