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Union Pacific livery on the side of a cargo locomotive at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 15, 2022. Photo by Bing Guan/Reuters

Economy May 02

Union Pacific undermined regulators’ efforts to assess safety, federal regulators says

By Josh Funk, Associated Press

Politics Apr 13

Heat project - during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Heat protections for indoor California workers in limbo after Newsom abandons rules

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has abandoned proposed protections for millions of California workers toiling in sweltering warehouses, steamy kitchens, and other dangerously hot workplaces — upending a regulatory process that had been years in the making.

By Angela Hart, Samantha Young, KFF Health News

Economy Mar 22

FILE PHOTO: An employee works inside Amazon's JFK8 distribution center in Staten Island, New York, U.S. November 25, 2020. Photo by Brendan McDermid/REUTERS
California work safety board approves indoor heat rules, but another state agency raises objections

The Los Angeles Times reports the rules were approved Thursday by the board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health despite a late objection from the Department of Finance because of cost effects on the state.

By Associated Press

Nation Sep 17

Violence
Watch 7:27
What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities

Health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers, according to government data. In a National Nurses United survey in 2022, 40 percent of hospital nurses said they’d seen an increase in violent incidents.

By John Yang, Claire Mufson

Health Aug 07

Reports of several casualties from a gunman in a downtown hospital in Atlanta
Attacks at medical centers contribute to health care being one of nation’s most violent fields

Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show American health care workers are now far more likely to suffer nonfatal injuries by violence than workers in any other profession, including law enforcement. They racked up 73% of all such injuries…

By Rebecca Boone, Associated Press

May 07

Watch 6:21
Answering viewer questions about workplace safety during the pandemic

As states and businesses around the country begin to reopen, many Americans are worried about the health risks of returning to work. Christina Banks, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley, joins Amna…

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Nov 27

Watch 9:14
Amazon doesn’t report its warehouse injury rates — but we have an inside look

By Will Evans, Reveal

Black Friday kicks off peak shopping season for Amazon. This year, the company is offering its Prime members even faster service: instead of two-day shipping, some packages will arrive at customers’ doors in only one. But many Amazon staffers say…

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Jan 04

Why private waste management is one of the nation’s most hazardous jobs

By Kiera Feldman, The Investigative Fund

From the collection out on garbage trucks, to the processing at transfer stations and recycling centers, to the dumping at landfills, the waste industry averages about one worker fatality a week. Nationally, in 2016, 82 percent of waste-worker deaths occurred…

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Aug 16

Watch 9:40
In the wake of the Ailes resignation, we discuss workplace sexual harassment

By PBS News Hour

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson was the first woman to accuse network co-founder Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. She was not the last: a subsequent flood of allegations forced Ailes to resign. As the company investigates, Judy Woodruff interviews…

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Sep 22

Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine

By Dr. Howard Markel

No individual was more instrumental in warning people about the health risks and potential dangers of the industrial workplace than Alice Hamilton.

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