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Confined Space Weekly Toll

The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll

April 29, 2026 Aina Atienza
Workers Memorial Day

Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers

April 28, 2026 Kathleen Rest
State Plan States

The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection

April 21, 2026 Garrett Brown
Heat

OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard

April 16, 2026 Jordan Barab
Chemical Standards Environmental Protection Agency

Republicans Work to Gut Toxic Chemicals Law: Bad for People, Worse for Workers

April 16, 2026 Rena Steinzor
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The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection
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OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
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The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll
Confined Space Weekly Toll
The Negligence Just Keeps Piling Up: The Bi-Weekly Toll
Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers
Workers Memorial Day
Remembering Our Nation’s Fallen Workers
The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection
State Plan States
The sad decline in Cal/OSHA’s worker protection
OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
Heat
OSHA Weakens Heat Emphasis Program While Virginia Commits to a Standard
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Catching Up: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety — Short Stuff

October 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…

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Las Vegas

October 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Lac Mégantic: Blame the Worker on Steroids

September 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…

Agriculture

Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure

September 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…

Blame the Worker OSHA

Who Is Responsible For Worker Safety?

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

One of the free services we provide here at Confined Space world headquarter is helping journalists write better articles. Here…

Blog

I’m outa here….

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

For a couple of weeks… Blogging will be light over the next couple of weeks as I head out on…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home This Week

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

68-year-old man killed in workplace accident in Hall County Atlanta, GA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.…

Fatalities OSHA Public Employees

Will We Ever Know How Rickey Nombrano Died?

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

Ricky Nombrano, part of the Ballinger, Texas city work crew was killed earlier this week “while operating heavy equipment.” We…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Vendor, New York City

September 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

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OSHA Silica

OSHA Delays Full Silica Enforcement For One More Month

September 21, 2017 Jordan Barab

You won’t see it in a press release, but yesterday OSHA announced another 30 day delay in full enforcement of…

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