Since the creation of OSHA, workplace fatalities have decreased by 60 percent, and illness and injury by 40 percent. This article outlines why a strong OSHA is important for worker safety and health.
Nurses, nurse aides, EMTs and paramedics, pharmacists, dietary, environmental services, maintenance, lab assistants, office support, x-ray technicians, and others. All of these essential workers are Steelworkers.
Women have long been leaders in protecting worker health. Scientists, doctors, government officials & union activists all have a part to play in making workplaces safer.
To ensure the safety & health of workers, OSHA conducts inspections to identify hazards in the workplace. This post outlines the top 10 most frequently cited OSHA violations for 2022.
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 U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have declared September of every year National Emergency Preparedness Month.