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Working in the Heat

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On August 10, 2021
I am so not happy to have my Oregon time include another of these insane heat waves. Good times. But my work is in air-conditioned archives or wherever else I want to work during the summer. No real pain for me. A lot of us...
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OSHA’s Failures

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On April 9, 2021
The only time the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has even come close to living up to its potential was when Eula Bingham led the agency in the Carter years. Once Reagan got to town, he decimated the agency and it's never recovered, a victim...

OSHA Reform

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On May 21, 2020

As we have seen throughout the COVID crisis, worker safety is a huge problem in this nation. One big reason for that is that corporations have gone full regulatory capture.

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Today is OSHA's 49th birthday. Today is also Day 44 of the quarantine (for me anyway) and a day where states are increasingly moving toward reopening their economies without any meaningful protections for workers. Part of the Republican war on workers has been to make...
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The Workplace Toxicity Epidemic

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On January 2, 2016
Work-related illnesses kill 50,000 Americans a year, yet very little is done about it. Congress has not increased the power of OSHA and most violations are just minor misdemeanors, even when they are criminal. Fines don't even begin to make most companies take OSHA seriously....

OSHA

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On September 14, 2015

OSHA just faces a hard row to hoe in implementing silica standards or anything else. The reality is that OSHA has been battered between the political winds ever since its.

Tianjin, Texas

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On September 1, 2015

Above: The 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion There's been a lot of media discussion over the past week about Chinese workplace safety conditions because of the Tianjin explosion that.

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