Bills in Congress would take important steps to help ensure worker safety Over the past few years, Nevada has become a poster child of the problems with workplace safety oversight and regulation. During the construction boom on the Las Vegas Strip, for ...
Rep. Dina Titus introduced a bill Tuesday that would give the federal government more flexibility in its oversight of state workplace safety programs, including the agency charged with ensuring the safety of Nevada workers. The reform legislation is potentially important because of ...
Calif. worker safety board to mull mandating condoms for porn actors to curb spread of STDs Condoms might be the only thing porn actors are required to wear if the state's workplace safety board approves a petition mandating their use. In a ...
Rescuers say little chance of survival for 31 trapped a week ago in mine in northern China No signs of life have been detected from 31 coal miners trapped underground for a week by a flood in northern China, state media reported ...
<div id="subtitle">Congress should focus on human cost, not the false arguments in worker safety debate</div><div><p> By the Labor Department’s count, on average, 15 people are killed each day on the job and about 11,000 suffer occupational illnesses or injuries.</p><p> ...
<div><p>Thirty-two people have died in two separate accidents in China, as explosives went off in a rural area while a lift crashed on an urban building site, highlighting the nation's poor work safety record.</p><p>In the first of the incidents, a blast erupted ...
<div><p>Three officials at a now-defunct farm labor contractor were charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a pregnant teenager who collapsed from heat stroke after working in a sweltering vineyard last year.</p><p>San Joaquin County District Attorney James Willett announced the ...
<div id="subtitle">Amended bill aims for step, not leap, in state OSHA oversight</div><div><p> Not long ago, state Sen. Maggie Carlton, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor, set out to overhaul Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.</p><p>The Las ...
<div id="subtitle">Nevada should follow the federal government’s lead in making its program ‘more robust’</div><div><p> Legislative attempts to improve Nevada OSHA are falling flat.</p><p> A congressional committee last summer took testimony on the rash of deaths at Las Vegas Strip construction ...
<div id="subtitle">New memorial commemorates workers who lost their lives on the job</div><div><p>Labor leaders are dedicating a national memorial to honor the more than 5,000 workers who lose their lives on the job each year.</p><p>The National Workers Memorial will ...
