Well, doesn't this just make you feel comfortable about the safety of our workplaces and our communities: A Dallas Morning News analysis of more than 750,000 federal records found pervasive inaccuracies and holes in data on chemical accidents, such as the one in West that...
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In a Democratic administration, OSHA makes alliances with women's groups to improve health and safety for women who work in construction. In a Republican administration, OSHA is controlled by industry.
"Can't Take No More," a 1980 film about workplace health and safety narrated by Studs Terkel is just incredible and very much worth watching, both for its footage of early.
The Obama Administration has made some positive moves in the wake of the West fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 15 people in April, which is good because the state of Texas certainly wasn't going to do anything: Although it seems incongruous to say...
I endorse all of Robert Kuttner's essay on the need for enforceable standards in the garment industry as the only way disasters like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh can.
An outstanding collection of old Dutch work safety posters. Of course I liked the timber mill one from 1940 best.