Tag: workplace safety
Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to...
Diane Rohlman, University of Iowa
Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, busing tables...
Chlorine is a highly useful chemical that’s also extremely dangerous −...
Aliasger K. Salem, University of Iowa
Many people encounter chlorine in their daily lives, whether it’s as an ingredient...
Body lotions, mothballs, cleaning fluids and other widely used products contain...
Robin Dodson, Boston University; Megan R. Schwarzman, University of California, Berkeley, and Ruthann Rudel, Northeastern University
The Research Brief...
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
To understand the danger of COVID-19 outbreaks in meatpacking plants, look...
Michael Haedicke, Drake University
Large meatpacking plants have become hotspots for coronavirus infection, along with jails and nursing homes. As of May 1, nearly 5,000...
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working...
Lupita D. Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder and Aaron Lamplugh, University of Colorado Boulder
Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with...
What Gorsuch’s conservative Supreme Court means for workers
Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
As Neil Gorsuch takes his seat on the Supreme Court, the 4-4 ideological stalemate that plagued the institution...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
