workplace safety

Workplace Temperature Checks Aren't Enough. Here's What Else We Need.

Good COVID-19 prevention strategies don't end with screening employees for fever before they enter the office.
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Democratic Bill Links Unemployment Benefits To Workplace Safety

Under the Senate proposal, workers would remain eligible for unemployment even if they refuse to work in unsafe conditions.
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Governors Cut Off New Unemployment Benefits Before Some People Even Got Checks

There's a plague outside, but some states think it's urgently necessary for people to go to work.
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Trump Tells Employers Not To Worry About Recording COVID-19 Cases

Only health care facilities and select other employers will have to figure out if infections happened at work. Safety advocates are beside themselves.
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Coronavirus Reveals Gaping Hole In U.S. Safety Laws

Labor groups are pressing for an emergency infectious disease standard to protect workers more likely to be exposed to the virus.
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Safety Watchdog Stops Including Names Of Dead Workers In Its Investigative Reports

The Chemical Safety Board said it doesn't want to appear as if it's blaming anyone for fatalities. Safety advocates are demanding the agency name names.
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Judge Rejects $2.4 Million Fine For Oil Company Over Blast That Killed 7

State officials had said the Tesoro Anacortes refinery explosion was the oil company's fault.
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Trump Administration Bottles Up Another Workplace Safety Rule

This one would put job-related injury and illness records online.
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Trump Administration Delays Life-Saving Safety Regulation

The Obama rule would limit construction workers' exposure to cancer-causing dust. But now it's in limbo.
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Trump Signs Bill Making It Easier For Employers To Hide Worker Injuries

Republicans just repealed a major safety regulation issued by former President Barack Obama.
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