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What if more than just employees’ livelihood depended on a healthy workforce? What if an entire community did? Turns out, that may not be far from the truth.

Occasionally, someone says something I find noteworthy. In today’s post, a workers’ rights advocate puts proposed OSHA budget cuts into perspective.

An OSHA workgroup sets its eye on improving temporary worker safety, and the agency releases a new tool to keep tabs on rule violators. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

OSHA is relying on decades-old information to promulgate its silica rule – or so the argument goes.

This month, Donald Groover from DEKRA Insight explains that employee experiences must first change before safety culture can change.

This month, Shelley Brown, SH&E Manager for AECOM, writes about “retooling the metrics we use to highlight new and unexplored strengths and weaknesses” in organizations.

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OSHA updates a National Emphasis Program and hits some employers with heavy fines. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

More states now operate their own occupational safety and health program than those that don’t. Are State Plans the future of workplace safety oversight?