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Arkema Update: Chemical Plants and Climate Change

November 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

More information is coming out about the chemical releases at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby Texas following last summer’s…

Chemical Safety Board

CSB Withdraws Deepwater Horizon Worker Participation Recommendations

November 15, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a 3-1 vote, the Chemical Safety Board voted yesterday to withdraw recommendations calling for the Bureau of Safety and…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead…

November 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral The church bell chimed, ’til it…

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More on OSHA Nominee Scott Mugno

November 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

Reviews continue to pour in about President Trump’s long delayed nomination of Scott Mugno to be the next Assistant Secretary…

Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: The Deaths Just Keep On Happening

November 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

Rockford police officer killed after traffic stop ROCKFORD, Ill. — A Rockford police officer was killed in the line of…

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Deepwater Horizon: Is the CSB Preparing to Retreat on Worker Participation?

November 6, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Chemical Safety Board may be preparing to take a significant step backwards in its advocacy for worker participation in…

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Lac-Mégantic Trial Update: Who’s to Blame?

November 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people when a train carrying 73 cars of…

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Photo of the Week: Construction, Judiciary Square

November 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Scott Mugno Show: Reviews continue to dribble in about Trump’s nomination of Scott Mugno to head OSHA. Katie Tracy…

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Halloween 2017 at the Department of Labor

November 1, 2017 Jordan Barab

As one of my former co-workers at OSHA said: “You know you work at the Department of Labor when it’s…

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