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…
Baby It’s Cold Outside: Time to Submit Comments on Heat
Don't let the cold fool you. Comments on OSHA's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on heat are due January 26.…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
This week: Trench collapse, fires, shootings and stabbings, vehicle-related incidents, logging. Never short of different ways for workers to die…
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
There is a lot of very good analysis out there about the very bad decision by the Supreme Court to…