Last Fall, I wrote about the failure of my city’s public works department to enforce safe working conditions for the city’s contractors. Their excuse…City Turns Contractor into OSHA for Trench Hazards
Child labor is especially prevalent in the food industry. Restaurants commonly offer children their first jobs around the age of 16. And while there’s nothing inherently wrong with waiting tables or cashiering at the local diner before you turn 18, underage work is a common site of abuse. In 2022, nearly 4,000 children in the … Continue reading Child Labor Is a Growing Problem in the Service Industry – Eater
Across nationwide testing, marijuana positivity rates for 2022 reached 4.3% (up from 2.7% in 2017), with biggest gains found in states that legalized recreational marijuana. Impairment and related safety hazards have been disrupting the workplace resulting in lost time, absenteeism, safety hazards, and serious industrial accidents. We track annual positivity test reports from Quest Diagnostics, … Continue reading High Times: Marijuana Positivity in Workplace Drug Tests Reaches 25-Year Record | Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
More than a third of workplace injuries occur during employees’ first year on the job, regardless of age or industry experience, according to a new report from Travelers. In fact, an employee’s time spent in a particular role is one of the driving factors in injury frequency, according to Travelers 2023 Injury Impact Report, which … Continue reading 34% of Workplace Injuries Occur in First Year on the Job: Travelers
As an alternative lens to yesterday’s post on the evidence surrounding safety culture interventions (* and however one wants to define the target of …Some debate around the construct of ‘safety culture’
Longwall Accidents From January 2013 to March 2023, there have been 545 accidents on longwalls in underground coal mines, causing seven deaths and 333 serious injuries. These accidents occurred when miners were performing routine work such as shoveling coal, working on shields, moving equipment, installing bits on shear drums and installing supplemental ground support at … Continue reading Longwall Accidents – Safety Alert | Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
This paper systematically reviewed the published evidence surrounding underreporting of worker injury and illness and the contributing factors. 20 …Underreporting of workers’ injuries or illnesses and contributing factors – a systematic review
This study explored how the framing, language and style of an accident report affects the audience’s proposed solutions to manage the problems found.…Accident Report Interpretation
Last week, two workers killed in a trench collapse, 19 year old killed in tree trimming incident, others killed in falls, crushed by machinery, …Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Better training and engagement can help address this workplace issue.
31 cars derailed from a 70-car train carrying hazardous materials approximately 60 miles from Fargo, North Dakota. — Read on http://www.lion.com/lion-news/march-2023/hazmat-release-31-train-cars-derail-in-north-dakota
In this report, workers died tree-trimming incidents, grain bin, falls, drowning, electrocution, shootings and vehicular incidents. On average, over …Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
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