Workplace Safety and Health
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 19, 2018
Bad grades? What bad grades?: Nearly half of all Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes received the agency’s lowest possible quality ratings as of December. But until very recently that information was hidden from families looking for a home for their loved ones, an investigation by The Boston Globe and USA Today found. The VA…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Medical Errors, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 12, 2018
Vodka toasts for gun rights group: Several prominent Russians, including people said to be in Putin’s inner circle or powerful within the Russian Orthodox Church, met with officials of the National Rifle Association in Moscow and elsewhere during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a McClatchy report.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, FDA, food safety, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage theft, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 29, 2018
CEOs living large – really, really large: The New York Times has published an accounting of the highest paid CEOs at American companies in 2017 and how their compensation compares to median pay for their workers. It’s painful to read. A Walmart employee would have to work more than 1,000 years at the company’s median salary…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, wages, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin on May 23, 2018
Early on Feb. 2, 2016, a van carrying members of the California Conservation Corps paused at a stop sign on a country road near the Central Valley town of Reedley. Then the van rolled into the intersection, where it was broadsided by a 40-ton gravel truck and trailer, killing three corps members …
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 22, 2018
About 4.6 million children in the United States live in homes where guns are kept unlocked and loaded, as more people come to believe – despite scientific evidence to the contrary – that a home with a gun is a safer home, according to a new analysis …
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on May 9, 2018
Farmers in California, the nation’s top agricultural state, are applying near-record levels of pesticides despite the rising popularity of organic produce and concerns about the health of farmworkers and rural schoolchildren. The latest figures, released in April by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and covering 2016, show that 209 million pounds of pesticide active…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health, Food Supply, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Stuart Silverstein on November 14, 2017
New California rules aimed at curbing the surprising amount of pollution coming from leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small gas-powered machines cleared a final hurdle Monday, and are set to take effect on Jan. 1. The requirements mark another step in the state’s long-running battle to reduce emissions from a category of small engines…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Stuart Silverstein on September 19, 2017
Leaf blowers can make an infernal racket, and environmental officials say that exhaust from blowers and other gas-powered lawn and garden equipment is a surprisingly big source of air pollution. But are landscaping workers who use the equipment day in and day out exposed to potentially harmful emissions? A 2006 study by the U.S. Environmental…
| Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
Leaf Blowers Flagged as Prodigious Polluters -- And Possible Health Threat
By Stuart Silverstein and Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on September 19, 2017
Five years after starting his first job with a landscaping crew in the suburbs of Seattle, Fredi Dubon decided he had enough and called it quits. The work days were long, sometimes 12 hours, but a bigger problem was having to inhale exhaust from his gas-powered leaf blower.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on May 30, 2017
In the four months since President Trump took office, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued four news releases announcing penalties for job safety violations. By the end of May last year, it had issued 199. The recent reticence has spurred six U.S. senators, all Democrats, to ask what’s up at OSHA. In…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
