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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
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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
Congress OSHA

Mugno Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing on Tuesday

November 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

Scott Mugno, President Trump’s choice to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, will go before the Senate Health, Education,…

Humor

New Safety Idea?

November 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

When you’re working outdoors, it’s important to know what the weather is. Several years ago, OSHA produced a very useful…

Fatalities OSHA

FedEx Fatalities: Mugno Has Some Explaining To do

November 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Scott Mugno, nominated by President Trump to be the next head of OSHA has a problem. Several problems actually. Last…

Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: Death In The American Workplace

November 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Man killed by falling tree in Brentwood BRENTWOOD, N.H. — A workplace accident took a tragic turn when a local…

OSHA Recordkeeping

One Last Time: OSHA Extends Recordkeeping Reporting Deadline

November 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

After multiple delays, OSHA has finally announced that employers who are required to keep OSHA injury and illness records must…

Workplace Illness workplace safety and health programs

Editorial Board Resigns after Corporate Takeover of Worker-Oriented Public Health Journal

November 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

The entire 22-member Editorial Board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environment Health resigned this morning after a months-long…

Blog

“I Don’t Get Enough E-mail” Said No One, Ever

November 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

I can’t do much about the quantity of e-mail you get, but I can help you with the quality of…

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Short Stuff: Short, But Interesting

November 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

There’s always so much to talk about. Luckily, you have me to distill it for you. Zatezalo to MSHA: The…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Last Two Weeks of Carnage in the American Workplace

November 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

These reports always contain an surprising and upsetting diversity of ways to die in the workplace. The last couple of…

Alex Acosta Silica Voluntary Protection Programs Workplace Violence

Acosta Testifies and He’s Not Terrible

November 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta testified last Thursday at a hearing before the full House Education and Workforce Committee, and…

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