{"id":11492,"date":"2025-04-16T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:00:25","slug":"dispatches-from-the-front-lines-of-workplace-safety-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2025\/04\/16\/dispatches-from-the-front-lines-of-workplace-safety-health-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches From The Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s going on in the world of workplace safety and health? Read on. It’s not all<\/em> bad news.<\/p>\n

Maryland Public Employees Gain Protections<\/h2>\n

After the recent deaths of several Maryland public employees, the Maryland Senate and House passed the Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act<\/a>.\u00a0 Maryland is an OSHA state plan state, so public employees were already covered by OSHA (unlike public employees in 22 other states.) But Maryland does not issue financial penalties when public employers are cited. So even though Maryland OSHA cited<\/a> the city of Baltimore after the heat-related death of Ronald Silver II, no penalty was issued.\u00a0 The Davis Martinez act provides for penalties against public employers, creates a Public Employee division in Maryland OSHA, and requires the state to issue a standard to protect public employees from workplace violence. Davis Martinez, after whom the bill is named, was a Maryland parole officer who was killed last year<\/a> by a registered sex offender he was monitoring.<\/p>\n

Friends of Workers, Friends of NIOSH<\/h2>\n