The State of New Jersey now supports a ban on fracking. NJ Governor Pat Murphy recognized the health and environmental consequences of usi...

The U.S. Department of Labor 's  Occupational Safety and Health Administration  today announced a final rule to improve protections for...

Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from inthesetimes.com Today, after a much-criticized delay on issuing a rule to l...

Today's post was shared by WCBlog and comes from www.aflcio.org Sixteen years ago, federal workplace safety officials began develo...

The long awaited "Silica standard" for workers has been proposed by OSHA. This post is shared from Dr. David Michaels,  Assistant...

Sand produced while fracking is becoming a major health issue for energy workers throughout the country. The  intransigency  of the Obama Ad...

A foundry worker, who was exposed to silica for over 35 years, was held by a NJ Workers' Compensation Judge, to have contracted a fatal ...

At least 1.7 million construction workers could be protected from cancer-causing silica if an OSHA protection – stalled for two years – is p...

The list shows the vast array of topics covered by NIOSH.  Of note this year, the third and eleventh most viewed blogs were written by exter...

While focus has been on environmental concerns with the advent of fracking, a process to release oil and gas, a new concern has emerged ...