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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
The date of 2/13 isn't just the day before Valentine's Day. It has a particular significance for those working in the restaurant industry.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
The January jobs numbers show an improvement, but many of the new jobs are temporary jobs -- and that has implications for occupational health and safety as well as workers' financial security.
Posted by The Pump Handle at 4:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Asbestos
New Yorkers, the nation and the world lost a dedicated physician and worker advocate this week with the passing of Stephen M. Levin, 70. For 20 years, Levin directed the Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Legal
While some are pursuing a legal strategy to hold Walmart and its construction contractors responsible in a civil suit for the 2008 work-related death of Romulo de Oliveira Santos, the sanctions issued by OSHA against the contractors have been ignored and unpaid.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 5:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
OSHA proposed a $21,500 penalty to Zaloudek Grain for violations related to the incident that caused two 17 year olds to each lose a leg while they were working at the grain handling facility.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
White House OMB stalls crystalline silica rule; NYT describes horrific conditions of some Apple workers in China; and MSHA faces a backlash for shutting down an unsafe mine.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 3:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
The Obama Administration's OSHA projects it will issue three final rules in 2012 addressing health and safety hazards. These are the same rules it predicted last year to issue in 2011.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 3:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Apple has made news by releasing information on working conditions for its suppliers -- but there are many more factors beyond what's in their Supplier Responsibility report that affect the health of workers making Apple products.
Posted by The Pump Handle at 3:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Regulation
More than 300 scientists and public health experts sent a letter to President Obama urging his White House to complete its review of a draft proposed OSHA rule on crystalline silica. OMB has had the proposal for 11 months.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 12:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemicals Policy
A previously confidential report by the California Bureau of Investigations reveals a reckless disregard for worker safety by a UCLA and the chemistry professor in charge of the chemistry lab which led to the 2009 death of research assistant Sheri Sangji, 23.
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 2:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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