OSHA Issues Proposed Heat Standard
OSHA announced today the issuance of a draft Heat Protection standard that will protect 36 million workers from the deadly…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Heat, drowning, workplace violence, electrocution, shootings, falls, explosions, building collapse, vehicle incidents.…
Bad Week for Worker Safety: Chevron Deference and Budgets
Not a good week. And I’m not even talking about last night’s debate. What’s been happening that you really don’t…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
Workplace Heat Protections: Forward for the Feds; Progress and Coup in California
As the nation plunges into the summer’s first major heat wave, protections for workers seem have taken a couple of…
Bill Introduced to Stop Public Employees’ Deaths
Somewhere close to 100 workers are killed in the workplace every week of the year. It’s a tragically normal thing,…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
OSHA’s New Walkaround Rule Approaches. Be Afraid?
You probably didn’t know…. But a specter is haunting America business. The specter of mass unionization. And the tiny Occupational…
Florida Solves Climate Change!
Good news America! Florida has solved climate change. Not be reducing greenhouse gases, championing renewable energy, and moving to electric…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…