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Climate Change Heat

Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country

July 9, 2025 Rena Steinzor
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

July 7, 2025 Jordan Barab
Brett Kavanaugh Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause

July 3, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll

July 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Heat Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed At Work

July 2, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
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Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
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Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Climate Change Heat
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Weekly Toll
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Weekly Toll
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Brett Kavanaugh Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process
Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll
Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll
Workers Memorial Day

Workers Memorial Day Around the Country

May 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers Memorial Day events were held around the world last weekend. Here are some articles about many of the US…

Beryllium OSHA Regulations and Standards

OSHA and Industry Reach Beryllium Settlement

May 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA and the Beryllium industry have reached a settlement regarding changes in OSHA’s Beryllium standard for general industry. The changes,…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Mourning and Fighting for Another Year

April 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

Even though President Trump somehow forgot to mention Workers Memorial Day at his rally in Michigan Saturday night, we here…

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Really Stupid Sh*t: Johns Hopkins, Scott Walker and Bad Foster Parents

April 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Sometimes you just have to smack your head and laugh. Because the only other thing you can do is scream…

Jordan Barab Public Employees Workers Memorial Day

My Workers Memorial Day: Fight for Your Union, Fight for Your Lives

April 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

I hope you’re all doing something to commemorate Workers Memorial Day — even if your own personal moment of silence…

OSHA Workers Memorial Day

Read, Mourn and Fight — Especially Fight

April 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

Lots more today as Workers Memorial Day approaches: First, ME. The Economic Policy Institute has published a Workers Memorial Day…

Chemical Plant Safety Chemical Safety Board Environmental Protection Agency OSHA

Wisconsin Refinery Explosion Injures Workers, Causes Mass Evacuation

April 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

A huge explosion rocked the Husky Energy Oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin this morning, sending at least six workers to…

AFL-CIO International Workers Memorial Day Workplace Violence

Approaching Workers Memorial Day

April 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

This Saturday, April 28 is Workers Memorial Day 2018 and union leaders, politicians and activists across the country are weighing…

Environmental Protection Agency

“Weaponized Transparency” Pruitt is locked and loaded.

April 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

Scott Pruitt may not have the ethics to be appointed town dog catcher and may be on his way back…

Humor

Texting and Driving: Today’s Public Service Announcement

April 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

Courtesy of @WesternCapeGov and the National Safety Council. “You can’t even text and walk…” – Thank you @WesternCapeGov for creating…

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