OSHA Comings and Goings
Mostly goings. Tom Galassi, OSHA’s Director of Enforcement Programs retired as of last week. Tom is a certified industrial hygienist…
Harwood Grants Announced
“Harwood” must be short for “Hard to Kill.” Despite receiving the death penalty from the Trump administration and the House…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workers Reporting for the Final Shift
Death Toll in California’s Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies CLEARLAKE, Calif. — A utility worker was…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Captives on the Kill Line: Hiring immigrant workers — even undocumented workers — can be a headache. They get rounded…
Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story
OSHA proposed last week to roll back parts of the “Electronic Recordkeeping” regulation that the Obama administration issued in 2016.…
OSHA Cites Two Multiple Death Cases Very Differently
OSHA has issued citations in two multiple fatality cases, one with a appropriately large penalty (for OSHA) and one not…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has…
Why They Work For OSHA
This is why I work for OSHA. It’s why I’m proud to work for OSHA So someone I don’t know,…
OSHA Proposes to Roll Back Electronic Recordkeeping Rule
OSHA today released the text of a proposal to relieve workers of the alleged “risk” of having confidential information exposed,…
US to Workers Killed on Small Farms: We Don’t Care
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE — A man who suffered severe burns when a grain elevator exploded in South Sioux City…