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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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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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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
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Climate Change Heat
Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country
Weekly Toll
Public Employees Weekly Toll
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
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: More Window Washers, Washington DC

February 23, 2018 Jordan Barab
Congress House of Representatives OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs

House to Hold OSHA Hearing on Tuesday

February 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

The House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold a hearing on Tuesday entitled “A More Effective and Collaborative OSHA: A…

Public Employees

Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Public Employee Unions: Worker Safety Is At Risk

February 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

One of the most significant cases for workers in recent history is coming before the Supreme Court next week. Janus…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Public employees, workplace violence and death in a tire-shredder

February 19, 2018 Jordan Barab

I’ve been away, so it’s a long, depressing list this week. Lowlights include 11 public employees in states that don’t…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Window Washer, Washington DC.

February 18, 2018 Jordan Barab
Chemical Safety Board Mine Safety MSHA Short Stuff State Plan States Workplace Illness

It’s Always Something: Dispatches from the front lines of the battle for workplace safety

February 16, 2018 Jordan Barab

Black Lung is Back: After almost being eradicated in the late 1990, black lung is back, with a vengeance. Epidemiologists…

Alex Acosta Budget Chemical Safety Board Congress Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program) MSHA NIOSH Office of Management and Budget OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program Whistleblowers

Trump’s Worker Safety & Health Budget Again Undermines Worker Safety & Health

February 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Earlier this week, President Trump submitted his Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal. This is his second budget proposal and although…

Blog Jordan Barab

Blogging Forecast: Light

February 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

Even bloggers need vacations. I’ll be away from Confined Space World Headquarters for the next couple of weeks, spending more…

Alex Acosta Congress OSHA Poultry Industry

Good News for Poultry Processing Workers

February 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

It’s not all bad news for workers out there. Curiously, however, the good news for poultry workers is coming from…

Deconstructing the Administrative State Labor OSHA Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

The Gang That Couldn’t (de)Regulate Straight

February 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

President Trump frequently boasts about “eliminating more regulations in our first year than any administration in history.” This is supposedly…

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