OSHA: The Optional Safety and Health Administration
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of actual sight and sound, but of corporate greed…
Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up
I’ll taking a break for the next couple of weeks (and hopefully away from the computer.) But just because there’s…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week: Fall into a meat grinder, crushed by beam, electrocuted, stabbed, shot, suicide, forklift, struck by…
Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality
In powerful testimony before the House Education and Labor Workforce Committee yesterday, AFL-CIO Health and Safety Director Rebecca Reindel warned…
Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety
The increasingly militarized harassment of immigrants upending our communities across the country has been well understood. Less recognized is how…
OSHA Hearing Today
If you’re looking for some excitement this morning, the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold…
OSHA Penalties: How Low Can You Go?
Penalties for violating OSHA standards and imperiling workers health and lives are already embarrassingly low. But apparently not low enough…
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
I am an environmental lawyer who came to the challenge of ensuring worker safety and health midway through my career.…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Fireworks explosion, flash flood, tanker explosion, electrocution, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On average, over…
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Earlier this week, OSHA dumped dozens of deregulatory proposals into the Federal Register — most dealing with respirator issues, as…