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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.

There’s an old saying, “If you’re going through hell, keep going,” that is, forge on until you get to some other place. For too many American workers, hell, is simply injury or even death at the workplace. Union-centered health and safety programs are meant to get us to another place, a safer place, a space where our members can freely work on real solutions to hazards at the workplace. And that’s exactly what United Steelworkers (USW) Local Union 10-234 in Trainer, Pa., has been doing for many years. And now, the local has received solid validation for their hard work.

Did you know that OSHA has a Whistleblower Protection Program that enforces the protection of workers who report health and safety hazards from retaliation?

United Steelworkers (USW) District 4 recently had its first in-person health and safety training since the pandemic contributed to the closing of in-person training sessions.

The training on April 22, 2021, at Republic Steel was attended by 10 members from USW Local Union 2603 in Blasdell, N.Y. The district received positive feedback from the company, who said attendees received excellent information about crane safety.

The 2021 USW TOP Conference will take place Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Click here for more information.

Click here to view the recall notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Tri-State Steel Construction, Inc., v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

The USW Tony Mazzocchi Center is featured in a state profile by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.