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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab
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November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab
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October 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…

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Weekly Toll: Workers Die at Gas Stations, Construction Sites, Bowling Alleys, Chicken Processing Plants, in Rivers and Falling off Buildings

October 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

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Photo of the Week: Warehouse Workers, NYC

October 7, 2018 Jordan Barab
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Ken Ward: Genius Journalist

October 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward is a rare specimen in many ways. First, he’s a journalist — and there aren’t…

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Public Employees at Risk: America’s Second-Class Citizens

October 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

What do Moises Dominguez, Cameron Leeds and Charlie McLaughlin have in common? All of them are public employees listed in…

Congress OSHA Trench Collapse

“We mean nothing to no one” — Slaughter In The Trenches

October 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…

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FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done

October 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Happy New Year!!! Hope you’re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up,…

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Twitter! Right Now!! Do you follow me on Twitter? Why not? Turns out I’m one of the “12 Workplace Safety…

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October 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

2 Mississippi police officers dead, suspect in custody after shootout BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Two police officers were shot and killed…

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Photo of the Week: Window Washers, New York City

September 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

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