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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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Enforcement OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
OSHA CARES: About the Boss
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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
Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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
COVID-19 OSHA

What Can We Expect With OSHA’s Vax-or-Test Standard: Watch Here

October 23, 2021 Jordan Barab

OSHA’s proposed Emergency Temporary Standard that will require employers to ensure that their employees are either vaccinated or tested weekly…

COVID-19 OIRA OSHA Regulations and Standards

To The Gates of Hell: Republican Opposition to OSHA’s COVID Vax/Test Mandate

October 22, 2021 Jordan Barab

Armageddon is coming — courtesy of a few Republican governors who believe that strong opposition to vaccine mandates has become…

COVID-19 State Plan States

OSHA Cracks Down On State Plans That Refuse to Adopt COVID Standard

October 20, 2021 Jordan Barab

Federal OSHA is cracking down on OSHA state plan states who refuse to adopt OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards.

Job Postings

Job Postings

October 20, 2021 Jordan Barab

Confined Space will occasionally publicize job postings in the field of workplace safety and health (WE NEED YOU!). If your…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Those Who Didn’t Come Home

October 18, 2021 Jordan Barab

This is a weekly list of some workers killed on the job over the past week. This is the first…

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October 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

I’m back. Yet again. For the third time. It’s almost Halloween. The Dodgers are poised to win the World Series…

Public Employees State Plan States

Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years

October 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…

COVID-19 OSHA Regulations and Standards

Everything You Need to Know about OSHA’s New Vaccine/Testing Rule*

October 15, 2021 Jordan Barab

How will a small agency like OSHA enforce such a wide-ranging COVID-19 health standard?

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Moving On. Good Bye Again

February 11, 2019 Jordan Barab

I don’t know if this is good news or bad news, but I’ve decided to throw off the shackles of…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

The Last Weekly Toll: They Shall Not Be Forgotten

February 11, 2019 Jordan Barab

This is the last Weekly Toll. The last list of workers killed in a fall, crushed under a dirt compactor,…

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