On July 5, James Baldasarre, a 45-year old a Medford, Massachusetts US Postal Service employee who had worked for USPS for 24 years, died from excessive heat.
Co-authored by Tolle Graham, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health With back-to-school time in full swing, each school day, 55 million children and 7 million adults -- 20 percent of the total U.S.
With a construction boom taking place in Boston, the U.S.
With tree workers often working just a hairs breadth away from power lines, employers must carefully follow OSHA requirements or they will put their employees lives in jeopardy, MassCOSH said in a statement today.
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By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: August 7, 2013 Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to a corporatewide settlement to improve safety conditions related to trash compactors and cleaning chemicals in more than 2,800 of its stores, the United States Department of Labor announced on Wednesday.
A hearing officer with the National Labor Relations Boards Boston office has recommended that all objections filed by Citizens League for Adult Special Services Inc. regarding an employee vote to unionize be overruled.
Letters to the editor REDUCE, REUSE, ETC. Barbara Morans article on the challenges Boston faces in raising recycling rates through a single-stream strategy (Out of Sorts, July 14) captures key factors as we weigh the cost, quantity, and quality of recycled materials.
Workers concerned they were exposed to asbestos while renovating a town building have asked state Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate whether Barnstable officials allowed the work to continue despite knowing the carcinogenic material may have been present.
Almost 80 teenagers were expected to be sent home from an eastern Illinois hospital Thursday after being accidentally sprayed with fungicide from a crop-dusting plane as they worked in corn field, officials said. URBANA, Ill.
Establishing the Massachusetts Employee Safety and Health Advisory Committee Fact Sheet
An Act Extending Safety Protections to Employees of the Executive Branch of Commonwealth Fact Sheet
As the construction season heats up and buildings begin to break ground, theMassachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) reminds employers that constructionremains one of the most deadly industries for Massachusetts workers and that worker safety should be their first priority. The sober and...
This past June, the State Department released a human trafficking report that served as a shocking and very sad reminder that even in 2013, slave labor is alive and well.
In an historic victory for workers rights in the Bay State, a majority of human service workers at Lawrence-based CLASS, Inc . voted Union Yes! in their election.
