Unions Push Back on Trump Plan to Order Meat Processing Plants to Stay Open April 29, 2020 By Jeff Mason and Tom Polansek President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States,...
U.S. Issues New Coronavirus Safety Guidance for Meat, Poultry Plants April 27, 2020 By Jan Wolfe The U.S. Labor Department issued new guidelines on Sunday for U.S. meatpacking and meat-processing plants that have seen a rash...
Get Too Close, Get Buzzed. Ford Tests Wearables to Keep Workers at Safe Distances. April 17, 2020 By Keith Naughton A dozen Ford Motor Co. workers are experimenting with wearable social-distancing devices that could be deployed more widely once the...
OSHA Inspectors to Prioritize Health Facilities Over Other Sites During Coronavirus Crisis April 15, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that enforces workplace safety laws has said it will prioritize work site inspections of healthcare facilities over...
Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety April 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10...
Warehouse Workers Risk COVID-19 Shipping Knick-Knacks, Luxury Goods April 14, 2020 By Chris Kirkham, Reade Levinson and Nandita Bose As U.S. authorities ordered shutdowns of non-essential businesses to fight coronavirus, retailer Nordstrom Inc. closed hundreds of stores and gave...
How Shaming Works to Improve Workplace Safety: Viewpoint March 10, 2020 By Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View Can a press release save lives? No doubt about it. At least if it comes from the Occupational Safety and...
Bill to Make Healthcare Facilities Safer Places to Work Passes Oklahoma Senate March 5, 2020 The Oklahoma Senate has passed legislation that strengthens laws related to workplace safety in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Senate...
Employers Taking Proactive Health Steps to Prevent Costly Employee Injuries October 24, 2019 By Beth Pinsker A job does not have to be physically demanding to literally be a pain in the neck, or knee, or...
OSHA’s Top 25 Enforcement Cases Based on Total Penalty October 22, 2019 These are the 25 biggest workplace safety and health violation enforcement actions by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration....