Category: Workers’ Compensation

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released its list of 2018’s top workplace safety violations – and the culprits are responsible for tens of thousands of preventable illnesses, injuries, and deaths every year. OSHA’s Top 10 – and Why It’s Important OSHA releases its list of top 10 workplace safety violations every year[…]

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), along with the colder temperatures the winter also brings with it some weather-specific hazards that impact workers. During the colder months, certain tasks – like working around damaged or downed electrical power lines, driving, and removing snow from rooftops – can be especially dangerous, which is[…]

Recently, members of Philadelphia Building Trades (PBT) held a news conference in front of an apartment complex in Old City to emphasize the construction violations taking place. According to PBT, the mold-ridden project is a good example of the types of sites it will be exposing in 2019. The PBT says that in the new[…]

Despite paying the maximum fine for safety violations that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old employee, a Springfield, New Hampshire-based biomass plant is still up and running. Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees and regulates workplace safety and health, the organization still estimates that 5,000 hardworking men and women die from[…]

The National Institute for Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently joined with the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) in order to launch a large-scale effort supporting increased youth worker safety. Young workers are at more risk for workplace illnesses, injuries, and death than workers of any other age group. While young workers usually face greater[…]