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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

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Welding's toxic legacy

By Jim Morris

OSHA’s laissez-faire attitude

By The Center for Public Integrity

Lost letter: How government fails to deliver on worker safety

By Chris Hamby

But does it work?

By Chris Hamby

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.

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'Model workplaces' not always so safe

By Chris Hamby

OSHA too generous in cutting fines, watchdog says

By Julie Vorman

Massachusetts workers killed, injured at facilities touted as 'Model Workplaces'

By Beverly Ford

In U.S. Steel town, fatal gas explosion goes unpunished by OSHA

By Jim Morris

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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Black lung surges back in coal country

By Chris Hamby

White House urges end to programs that can make dangerous jobs safer

By Jim Morris

California's 'safe' workplaces include employers with spotty records

By FairWarning

Lost letter: How government fails to deliver on worker safety

By Chris Hamby

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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

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OSHA reforms Voluntary Protection Programs

By Alice Su

IMPACT: OSHA's 'model workplace' program needs reform, report finds

By Chris Hamby

'Model' workplaces avoid special government scrutiny targeting hazardous industries

By Chris Hamby

Bush administration kills safety regulation opposed by donors

By Bill Dawson

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

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Black lung surges back in coal country

By Chris Hamby

Massachusetts workers killed, injured at facilities touted as 'Model Workplaces'

By Beverly Ford

Lost letter: How government fails to deliver on worker safety

By Chris Hamby

OSHA’s laissez-faire attitude

By The Center for Public Integrity

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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IMPACT: Agency task force conducting ‘top-to-bottom review’ of ‘model workplaces’ program

By Chris Hamby

'Model workplaces' not always so safe

By Chris Hamby

Deaths at ‘model workplaces’ missing from list of federal overseers

By Chris Hamby

In U.S. Steel town, fatal gas explosion goes unpunished by OSHA

By Jim Morris

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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

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Black lung surges back in coal country

By Chris Hamby

GAO report supports science behind black lung rule

By Chris Hamby

GOP seeks to kill black lung reform

By Chris Hamby

But does it work?

By Chris Hamby

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

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Bush administration kills safety regulation opposed by donors

By Bill Dawson

'Model' workplaces avoid special government scrutiny targeting hazardous industries

By Chris Hamby

In U.S. Steel town, fatal gas explosion goes unpunished by OSHA

By Jim Morris

'They were not thinking of him as a human being'

By Jim Morris and Chip Mitchell

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

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Federal board concludes current chemical regulations are inadequate

By Bill Dawson

'Model' workplaces avoid special government scrutiny targeting hazardous industries

By Chris Hamby

In U.S. Steel town, fatal gas explosion goes unpunished by OSHA

By Jim Morris

OSHA workplace samples: Millions of records out of reach

By Jim Morris

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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BP to pay $13 million for safety violations at Texas refinery

By Alice Su

California's 'safe' workplaces include employers with spotty records

By FairWarning

'Model workplaces' not always so safe

By Chris Hamby

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

By Chris Hamby

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