SeaWorld has lost its legal battle to overturn a federal safety violation in the 2010 death of Orlando orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, and was roundly defeated in its attempt to vacate OSHA-mandated measures to protect the safety of trainers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.30.2012
"Are the emotions inspired by the grandeur of humans interacting with killer whales worth the dangers created by the interactions?" That was the qu...
David Macaray | Posted 05.29.2012
The only realistic hope one has of working in a safe industrial environment is to join a union. By and large, union jobs are safer than non-union jobs. And given that a union's sole concern is the welfare of its members, why wouldn't they be?
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.17.2012
WASHINGTON — While businesses bemoan the cost of regulations, a new study suggests that government enforcement of workplace health and safety ru...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.09.2012
After performing a series of hotel inspections, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has sent a rare letter to the Hyatt Corporation reco...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.23.2012
Saturday is Workers' Memorial Day, a time devoted to commemorating those killed on the job. No one volunteers to sacrifice their life for corporate profit, yet every day in workplaces across this country, the lives of 12 workers are taken, not given.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.12.2012
Every day, 12 workers die on the job in America -- often because a corporation has defied regulations or ignored standard safety procedures. Many more die prematurely from work exposure to toxic materials.
David Kirby | Posted 04.21.2012
My new book about killer whales in captivity -- Death at SeaWorld -- does not hit stores for another five months, and already there are two online petitions (here is one) to boycott the title and urge booksellers and the media to ignore and reject the book.
Al Norman | Posted 04.09.2012
An everyday low price for a life -- from the company that made its fortune on cheap imported products -- like the labor of Romulo de Oliveira Santos.
AP | Posted 02.08.2012
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The U.S. Labor Department has recommended fining Wal-Mart Stores Inc. $365,500 after inspectors say they found 24 workplace safety ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.25.2012
WASHINGTON -- A long-awaited federal rule designed to protect workers in the construction and mining industries has been tied up in red tape at the Wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republicans claim the Obama administration is choking small business with burdensome workplace regulations. Democrats say the few new re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- In addition to blocking President Obama's health care law and slashing funding for job training, the budget plan presented by House Repu...
Brad Reid | Posted 11.26.2011
A recent Department of Labor news release stated that a financial institution was ordered to reinstate a fired employee and pay him $930,000 for viola...
AP | By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 11.20.2011
ORLANDO, Fla. -- SeaWorld Orlando is fighting $75,000 in penalties from a federal job safety agency following last year's death of a trainer who was g...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 11.19.2011
By Alexandra Duszak, iWatch NewsAs an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News has shown , oil refining is one of the countr...
David Kirby | Posted 11.19.2011
On Thursday, a federal judge ruled against the husband and family of Dawn Brancheau, the trainer who died in February 2010 at SeaWorld.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011
It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.10.2011
By Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsPart of a series,"Model Workplaces, Imperiled Workers,"by the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News. The first article ...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.06.2011
Despite deaths and avoidable accidents, companies stay in OSHA's 'voluntary protection' clubBy Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsFirst in a series, "Model Workp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.13.2011
When President Barack Obama let it be known in January 2009 that he had selected Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to be his regulatory czar, it was...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 06.28.2011
NEW YORK -- The number of workplace-related deaths and injuries decreased slightly in 2009 according to the nation's largest labor union, but that's n...
Sidney Shapiro | Posted 05.30.2011
Last week, the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) approved a survey to be conducted as part of the agency's efforts to develop an Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) standard.
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.29.2011
Thirty years ago, President Reagan put cost-benefit analysis at the heart of how agencies like the EPA and OSHA do business and initiated one of the m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
"We have been legislated to death." - James T. Hoyle, Secretary of the Manufacturers' Association, explaining his opposition to new laws proposed in t...
David Kirby | Posted 05.31.2012