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Congressional Review Act Regulatory Process

Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics

September 9, 2025 Rena Steinzor
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work

September 8, 2025 Jordan Barab
Public Employees

City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence

DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda

September 4, 2025 Jordan Barab
Budget

House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request

September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
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Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics
Congressional Review Act Regulatory Process
Appeals Court Opens the Way—Someday—to OSHA Regulation of Ergonomics
Weekly Toll:  Not Coming Home From Work
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home From Work
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Public Employees
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Criminal Prosecution Labor Unions Short Stuff Trench Collapse

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff

June 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

Death by Trench: Equipment World has just completed a special report on trench hazards and the dozens of preventable deaths…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Last Shift

June 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the…

Chemical Standards

Century Foundation: EPA Foot-Dragging on Methylene Chloride Is Endangering Workers and Consumers

June 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Check out my commentary on The Century Foundation’s website on EPA’s foot-dragging on banning the use of methylene chloride as…

Budget OSHA

House Subcommittee Votes to Cut OSHA Funding

June 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

The House of Representatives Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee has reported out a bill cutting overall OSHA funding from $552.78 million in…

AFL-CIO Enforcement OSHA

OSHA Enforcement in Decline Data Shows

June 13, 2018 Jordan Barab

Words Words Words I’m so sick of words I get words all day through First from him, now from you…

Alex Acosta OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs

OSHA Weakens Voluntary Protection Programs’ Integrity

June 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA issued a new policy document last week for its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), weakening measures taken in the last…

Silica

OSHA Silica Standard to Come Into Effect June 23 — with 30-day enforcement delay

June 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

In some fairly good news for workers who want to live a full life, but work in foundries or manufacture…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities

June 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…

OSHA Trench Collapse

19 Year-Old Worker Killed in Baltimore Trench

June 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

Nineteen years is a short life, but that’s all that Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie, Maryland will get. Hancock died,…

Chemical Safety Board

Inspector General Issues Bizarre Chemical Safety Board Report

June 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

The Inspector General (IG) issued a somewhat bizarre report yesterday on “management challenges” at the Chemical Safety Board. The IG…

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