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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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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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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
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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
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
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Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Criminal Prosecution Penalties Public Employees Trench Collapse

Preventing Deaths in the Season of the Trench

January 14, 2022 Jordan Barab

Sometimes it’s hard to remember with all the bad news around OSHA’s authority to protect workers from COVID-19, that there…

COVID-19 Supreme Court

Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Standard, Leaves Workers Without COVID-19 Protection

January 13, 2022 Jordan Barab

The Supreme Court, in a predictable 6-3 decision, blocked OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that required employees in businesses with…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: New Year Rings In With Teen-age Workers Killed

January 10, 2022 Jordan Barab

This week: A 16 year-old, an 18 year-old and a 19 year-old worker were killed on the job last week.…

COVID-19 State Plan States

Supreme Court Allows OSHA Standard to Go Into Effect (as of this moment…)

January 10, 2022 Jordan Barab

I’m holding my breath and afraid to jinx it, but as of this moment, noon on Monday, we have not…

COVID-19 Deconstructing the Administrative State Supreme Court

Supremes Hear OSHA Case: To Block or not to Block

January 8, 2022 Jordan Barab

So of course everyone is dying to know what a non-lawyer like me thinks about yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments about…

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Another Social Worker Killed: When will it end?

January 6, 2022 Jordan Barab

Deidre Silas, 36, an investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), was stabbed to death Tuesday…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: No Holiday From Workplace Death

January 3, 2022 Jordan Barab

Trench collapse, falling trees, traffic incidents, building collapses, shootings, falls. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every day in…

COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA

OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise

December 29, 2021 Jordan Barab

OSHA withdraws its healthcare worker emergency temporary standard just when at-risk workers need it most.

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Health Care Workers Still Protected By OSHA Emergency Covid Standard — Experts Say

December 23, 2021 Jordan Barab

As of Tuesday, December 22, it has been 6 months since OSHA issued its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) protecting the…

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Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Safety and Labor

December 21, 2021 Jordan Barab

Most Influential In our Hearts: Despite the global campaign championing Rory O’Neill for the most influential individual in health and…

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