Occupational safety and health. Workplace toxins. Ergonomics. Asbestos. Hearing loss. Safety.
A PIRG call center tosses ergonomic chairs and gives union workers stackable metal chairs to sit on
Hunger strikers demand GM take responsibility for injured workers in Colombia.
Oregon workers who died on the job last year will be remembered at ceremonies in Portland and Salem.
Another 6 Oregonians died in combat.
The Labor Press asked Oregon OSHA staff to identify some of the most common ergonomic hazards they find.
In 2010, 17 Oregon workers and 86 Washington workers were killed on the job according to state agencies.
Fishers, loggers, and airplane pilots have the most dangerous jobs, while construction and transportation and warehousing had the most deaths overall.
OSHA will hold off asking employers to record musculoskeletal disorders like carpal tunnel on a form they already fill out.
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration has laid off 10 employees so far this year, including longtime labor liaison David Sparks.
Nine years since a Republican Congress axed ergonomic regs, Ds show no appetite to reinstate them.
