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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
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request

September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll

Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

September 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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A BIG Thank You to Workers Who Keep America Running on Labor Day

September 1, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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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
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Budget
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
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
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
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Budget
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
OSHA

OSHA: We don’t need no stinkin’ advice — from workers

March 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA seems to be devaluing advice from outside stakeholders — or at least from workers. We’ve written before about the…

Enforcement OSHA

OSHA Issues Tiny Penalty for Three Communication Tower Deaths

March 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA has fined Tower King II Inc. $12,934 for the death of three workers who were attempting to install a…

David Michaels Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process

Corporate America’s Stealth Campaign to Stop Worker and Environmental Protections

March 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Admit it. If they could, Trump and most Republicans would like to just get rid of OSHA, EPA the Consumer…

Budget Chemical Safety Board Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Workplace Safety: What Didn’t Happen

March 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

I’m back after a couple of weeks of travel and instead of focusing about what happened over the last couple…

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Blogging Outlook: Slim to None

March 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

I’m travelling again for the next couple of weeks and not likely to write much. So go back and read…

Environmental Protection Agency

Climate Change: They Can’t Handle the Truth!

March 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had the brilliant idea last year to convent a “Red-Team/Blue-Team” exercise to debate the science…

Chemical Plant Safety Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards Workplace Catastrophes

Written in Blood: Trump Appointee Reverses Lessons of Deepwater Horizon

March 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

They say that those who forget history are forced to repeat it. But when it comes to workplace and environmental…

Penalties Recordkeeping

OSHA to Employers Who Violate the Recordkeeping Rule: No Problem!

March 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Fewer than half of all employers required to send their injury and illness information into OSHA last year sent in…

Mine Safety Process Safety Management Short Stuff

Dispatches From The Front Lines of the Battle For Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

March 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

More Freedom and More Catastrophic Fertilizer Explosions: After a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion at West Fertilizer exploded in 2013 killed…

OSHA State Plan States

Oops! Sessions on OSHA, Immigration and California

March 8, 2018 Jordan Barab

You have to hand it to Jeff Sessions. He knows his audience. Or at least he tries to. Yesterday Sessions…

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