Public Employees are not covered by #OSHA in 23 states. These 8 million employees do the same work that private sector workers do, but they have no right to a safe workplace.

And they keep dying. It must stop. They deserve protection.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2024/09/11/public-employees-killed-by-preventable-hazards-and-its-all-legal/#comment-194060

The 2023 Workplace Safety Year in Review

--OSHA Enforcement and Standards
--Making Child Labor Great Again
--Resurgence of The Labor Movement
--Rail Safety
--Great Journalism
-- Covid-19 and Healthcare Workers
--Heat Hazards
--Attacks on #OSHA

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2024/01/02/2023-the-confined-space-year-in-review/

5,486 workers were killed on the job the US in 2022, a 5.7-percent increase over 2021. The rate of workplace deaths rose as well.

5,486 workplace deaths translates into one death every 96 minutes: 15 every day, over 100 every week.

These deaths are traumatic fatal injuries and do not include deaths resulting from occupational illnesses like COVID-19, silicosis, liver disease or cancer. It is estimated that 120,000 workers die from occupational disease each year.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/12/19/in-2022-15-workers-died-every-day/

Almost half the country's workers are covered by #OSHA state plans, yet OSHA does a poor job overseeing them.

Now a labor union has stepped in to demand that OSHA revoke South Carolina's state OSHA plan because it is not as effective as federal OSHA.

What’s going on in South Carolina? What options does OSHA have if a state is not effectively running its OSHA program? Why do we even have state OSHA programs? What can be done to improve OSHA’s oversight?

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/12/15/union-petitions-osha-to-revoke-south-carolina-state-osha-program/

Why do public employees continue to get hurt and die as second-class citizens with no right to a safe workplace and no right to come home alive and healthy after work?

More than 50 years after passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/09/06/deadly-injustice-public-employees-as-second-class-citizens/ via @Jbarab

Heat doesn't kill workers. The employer's failure to protect workers from the heat kills workers.

And some localities have decided to do something about it.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/21/miami-dade-moves-to-protect-workers-from-heat-as-another-dies/

16-year old killed in a meat processing plant while Republicans weaken child labor protections and attempt to slash the budget of the federal agency that enforces child labor protections.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/18/16-year-old-killed-in-meat-processing-plant/

House Republicans declare war on workers as their scorched earth FY 2024 budget proposal calls for catastrophic cuts in #OSHA, #MSHA and #NLRB budgets.

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/14/house-republicans-declare-war-on-workers/

47 Dead. The Lac Mégantic Rail Disaster Ten Years Later. What lessons have we learned?

https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2023/07/06/lac-megantic-ten-years-later/