workplace safety News
‘Healthy’ Workplace Key to Saving Billions Lost to Workplace Injuries, Illness
A new study published this week shows how the global economy could claw back billions of dollars lost each year due to workplace injuries and illness. In Australia, more than 500,000 employees ...
California Inspectors Didn’t Visit All Farmworker Housing to Review Safety as Required
When Antonio Bravo stepped into the Salinas, California, hotel in May 2020, he first noticed a foul smell. Then he saw the bare metal cot with no mattress that his employer had given him to sleep on ...
U.S. High Court Rejects Challenge to Workplace Safety Agency
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by an Ohio company to the power of the federal workplace safety regulator as the justices avoided another legal effort to pare back the ...
Proposed OSHA Rule Would Protect Workers From Extreme Heat
The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited proposal that would require many U.S. employers to protect 36 million workers from extreme heat. The proposed rule from the U.S. ...
National Safety Month Focus: Engagement, Road Safety, Risk Reduction, Falls
June is National Safety Month, and each year the National Safety Council (NSC) highlights a different theme each week. The first week of June focused on how both employers and employees must be ...
Walmart Says False Alarms Anticipated if NY Panic Button Legislation Passes
Retail giant Walmart says it is against putting panic buttons in stores - a move that the New York legislature wants to require under a new law aimed at keeping retail workers safe. On Friday, the ...
3M People Worldwide Die of Work-Related Accidents, Diseases: Report
Nearly three million workers die each year due to work-related accidents and diseases, an increase of more than 5 percent as compared to 2015, according to a recent estimate by the International ...
U.S. Workplace Stress at All Time High
Stress at work has reached epidemic proportions and shows little decline in 2023, according to the American Psychological Association's "Work in America Survey: Workplaces as Engines of Psychological ...