Cancer Ideas galore on ways to speed process for new worker safety protections. Where is the leadership to implement them?
May 1, 2012 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report on the snail’s pace of the OSHA process of issuing new rules to protect workers from health and safety hazards on-the-job. One telling table in the document showed the agency issued about 20 new major regulations in each of the previous two decades (i.e., […]

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Cancer Slow progress by OSHA to improve worker health and safety regulations
January 30, 2012 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

The Labor Department provided an update on January 20, 2012 to its regulatory agenda, including revised target dates for improved workplace safety and health standards. Several of the rules OSHA now expects to publish in 2012 are regulations the agency previously said would be issued one or two years ago. Missed deadlines, however, are nothing […]

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OSHA When “shall make available to the public” means sorry, you can’t have it
October 6, 2011 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 5Comment

It’s been 8 weeks now since two 17 year-old workers lost legs in an industrial auger while employed at a grain handling facility in Kremlin, Oklahoma. One of the young men remains in the hospital, but may be released soon to a rehabilitation facility. When I first wrote about this horrible incident, I noted that […]

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