Boiled to Death, Buried Alive and Leg Ripped Off: The Stories Behind the Statistics
One of the fathers of occupational health, Irving Selikoff, once said that “statistics are people with the tears wiped away.”…
Weekly Toll: Last Workers to Die in 2017. Let’s hope 2018 is better
Bad couple of weeks for workers in Kansas and firefighters across the country. Also two trench deaths and a food…
NY Times Story on Regulatory Policy Again Forgets Workers, Communities
The New York Times, in another rather questionable Front Page article, The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse…
Alex Acosta
David Michaels
Department of Labor
Enforcement
Environmental Protection Agency
Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program)
Regulations and Standards
Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Year in Review
The Year In Review: 2017 Edition
With the end of 2017 comes the end of the 10th month of new, revised, rejuvenated version of Confined Space.…
American Nightmare: Wading Through Floating Fat and Chicken Guts While Machines Snap off Workers’ Arms
Peter Waldman, along with Kartikay Mehrotra have continued Bloomberg Businessweek’s amazing — and amazingly disturbing — coverage of the underbelly…
Criminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric?
On June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station — Michael McCort,…
NY Times Misses the Point on “Regulatory Fatigue”
Buried in paragraph 6 of an article on Page 11 of today’s New York Times — right next to an…
Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Silica Standard
There is no better holiday gift than the gift of life and that is what the DC Appeals Court gave…
Is Opioid Addiction the Most Important Workplace Safety and Health Problem?
I’m going ask some questions in order to start a conversation here — about workplace drug abuse, workplace fatalities and…