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NIOSH honored a request by Merilogy to voluntarily rescind one NIOSH respirator approval issued to them. Read more here.

Check out the video about the RCT program in collaboration with USW Local Union 8-550 and Paducah Gaseaous Diffusion Plant.

Labor activists, especially union members who spend their days on workshop floors, are in many ways like environmentalists. They both conceive of their immediate environment as a complex web of interrelated energies that must be understood in fine detail. In the case of plant workers, health and safety teams spend a lot of time tracking the state of machinery, infrastructure and work procedures that might lead to adverse events like injury.

The USWTMC is proud to announce that 16 students completed the Portsmouth RCT Training in September 2022.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have declared September of every year National Emergency Preparedness Month.

Save the date! April 16-21, 2023

If you are exposed to hazardous waste on the job, you may be entitled to protection under the EPA's Resource Conversation and Recovery Act.

USW Local Union 9-631 and Valero Memphis Refinerty continue to strengthen their labor-management partnership through TOP.

USW Local Unions 462, 1458 and 1978, who represent members at International Paper in Prattville, Ala., participated in an "Effective Health and Safety Committee" workshop.

Did you know that you have a right to know what dangerous substances you are working with and what protections are available?