Too tight on toxins?

By Matthew Lewis

The Bush admin is on its way out and strict workplace toxicity regulations may be going with it. Political appointees at the Department of L

Lame duck Congress may consider bill to toughen OSHA

By Jim Morris

For an agency so widely feared and demonized by American business, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a relative pushover.

Diesel dangers: Mining companies get first look at government cancer study

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published t
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OSHA workplace samples: Millions of records out of reach

By Jim Morris

Toxic exposures on the job cause the premature deaths of some 49,000 Americans each year, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administrat

OSHA says inspection program fine-tuned, not ‘shelved’

By Chris Hamby

An Occupational Safety and Health Administration program meant to ferret out employers that under report workplace injuries is honing its fo

OSHA too generous in cutting fines, watchdog says

By Julie Vorman

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration reduces virtually all proposed fines as an incentive for companies to fix workplace safety
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Year after tragedy, mining industry seeks some self-policing

By Chris Hamby

Mining industry urges feds to reward safety with fewer inspections

Federal board concludes current chemical regulations are inadequate

By Bill Dawson

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2002 — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, nearing the end of a lengthy investigation, has conclude

Excerpts from this story referencing "safety":

"… osal, opposed by Bush campaign donors, which could have expanded workplace-safety regulations covering the group, known as reactive chemicals.Reactive chemi …"

"… to get more reactive chemicals covered under the accident standard.Frumin, safety and health director of UNITE, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Te …"

"… ogram for handling reactive chemicals had followed “recommended industry safety practices.” …"

Bush administration kills safety regulation opposed by donors

By Bill Dawson

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2002 — The Bush administration quietly shelved a proposal to tighten regulations on a group of hazardous chemicals des

Excerpts from this story referencing "safety":

"… istration abandoned a proposal to address such dangers after the workplace-safety standard it was meant to expand appeared on a “hit list” of 57 regulat …"

"… tributed more than $216,000 to Bush’s presidential campaign.Eric Frumin, safety and health director for UNITE, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and T …"

"… cut OSHA’s budget by $7.9 million and eliminate 83 jobs at the workplace-safety agency.The budget and personnel cuts are being proposed at a time when evi …"

"… are not covered by PSM can have catastrophic consequences when appropriate safety measures have not been developed and implemented.”Private experts recent …"

OSHA urged to get tough with BP in $90 million fine negotiations

By M.B. Pell

Citing a Center for Public Integrity investigation of BP refineries having the most egregious safety violations in the industry, Democratic

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