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Occupational Safety & Health Administration 

OSHA GOOD AT ANNOUNCING FINES, BUT NOT AS GOOD AT COLLECTING THEM

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Once in a Lifetime
18. September 2008
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The Labor Dept's Occupational Safety and Health Administration talks a good game, says ProPublica's Robert Lewis, but the industry penalties they publicly announce are rarely collected. Lewis examined OSHA's 25 highest fines and found that 19 were reduced and three were dismissed. And the ...

LABOR DEPT. NOT PROTECTING WHISTLEBLOWERS

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Once in a Lifetime
04. September 2008
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Following the Enron scandal, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was supposed to protect corporate whistleblowers against retaliation from their employers. The Wall Street Journal's Jennifer Levitz reports that is not the case: out of the 1,273 cases brought before the Labor Dept. where whistleblowers allege ...

BUSH V. WORKPLACE SAFETY

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Yesterday's News?, Once in a Lifetime
18. August 2008
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The Washington Post editorializes this morning against a dubious sounding labor regulation proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. OMB would strip Occupation Safety and Health Administration scientists from their duties of assessing the risk of workplace. Instead, workplaces would ...

GET ME REWRITE

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Once in a Lifetime, Mine Safety & Health Administration
24. July 2008
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Congress has called for the Department of Labor to abandon a proposed rule change that could increase the danger of worker exposure to toxic substances, ...

LABOR WORKING WITH INDUSTRY TO LOOSEN TOXINS RULES?

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Once in a Lifetime, Mine Safety & Health Administration, Preventive Journalism
23. July 2008
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In a burst of activity atypical for the Department of Labor, top officials are rushing to change rules about permissible exposure to toxins in the workplace, according to a report by Carol Leonnig in the Washington Post.  The Post stresses that "political appointees" at Labor are making the changes, locking ...

INJURED FALL THROUGH CRACKS

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Once in a Lifetime
19. June 2008
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The Occcupational Safety Health and Administration, which tracks workplace injuries, hasn't been doing its job very well. A new study, reported out by the Wall Street Journal's Kris Maher, shows that employers are reporting to OSHA only about 50-75 percent of the injuries ...

OSHA’S “GOTCHA” APPROACH DOESN’T HELP AFTER TRAGEDIES

Cat.: Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Once in a Lifetime, Workplace
02. May 2008
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A team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal has investigated the massive explosion at the Imperial Sugar Co. refinery in Georgia and concluded that a lack of local government inspections, attention from the plants' owners, and federal government oversight combined to create the fireball that ignited on Feb. 7, 2008.  The problem, as Paulo Prada, Betsy McKay and Stephanie Chen write, was "all because of dust."

EVERYONE ONE WANTS REGULATION EXCEPT THE GOVERNMENT

Cat.: Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Dept. of Labor, Once in a Lifetime, Federal Agencies
09. October 2007
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Ending the danger to workers exposed to the chemical diacetyl, used in the production of microwave popcorn, fell to Congress due to inaction on the part of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Cindy Skzyrcki reports in the Washington Post.  Only when the House Committee on Education and ...