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Two coalition groups made news recently – one reacting to a proposed rule on meat processing line speeds and another to a proposed silica rule. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Two Department of Labor videos filmed 75 years apart both show the dangers of crystalline silica dust. However, the only thing dating the older film is that it’s in black and white.

OSHA launches a webpage for women construction workers, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission pledges to quickly resolve cases. Read these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

What if construction helmets could do double-duty: protecting workers from carbon monoxide poisoning as well as head injuries?

After decades of waiting, OSHA has released its proposed standard on crystalline silica.

In this week’s OSHA Roundup, OSHA proposes a major – and long-awaited – rulemaking.

If the worker and consumer protection proposals signed into law decades ago were proposed today, would they pass? Ralph Nader doesn’t think so.

If you are like me and the millions of other workers who spend most of the workday sitting down, then you should know that your chair isn’t very healthy for you.

OSHA withdraws a controversial proposed rule. Read about it, and more, in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

This week I’m continuing the conversation about reasons why workers hold back from reporting injuries. Much like the Canadian study on young workers I wrote about last week, a new study from the AFL-CIO-affiliated Center for Construction Research and Training concludes that fear of losing work may cause construction workers not to report injuries.