Join us for our 6th Annual LEAPS Youth Conference being held April 16th-18th. LEAPS is a FREE 3-day, 2-night conference held in the Boston area during April High School vacation week for teens throughout Eastern Massachusetts, who have an interest in health and safety in the workplace.
MOURN for the Dead - FIGHT for the Living Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:00 – 1:15 PM In front of the State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston MOURN for the Dead FIGHT for the Living Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:00 – 1:15 PM In front of the State House 24 Beacon Street, Boston (rain location , call 617-825-7233 x14 for inf...
Abusive bosses who target employees with ridicule not only have a bad effect on them but negatively impact the work environment for their co-workers, who suffer from "second-hand" or vicarious abusive supervision, a new study has claimed.
OSHA issues two very serious violation citations to a cement plant where a worker was killed.
Dying for Work in Massachusetts- 2012 Report
In July of 2005, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts funded the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at UMass Lowell to study safer alternatives for major uses of five toxic chemicals.
Romulo de Oliveira Santoss first night on a demolition job at a Walmart in Walpole was also his last. Santoss death is now the subject of a lawsuit that seeks to hold Walmart Stores Inc. accountable.
An extraordinary delay in the development of federal protections against exposure to crystalline silica is harming American workers, more than 300 public health scientists, doctors and occupational safety experts told President Obama today.
Century later, issues still resonate, (Jan. 11) highlights the parallels of the haves and have nots of 1912 and those of 2012.
Anne Whitledge, who died last August from brain cancer was an emloyee of Maxim Healthcare Services, a health care giant that fired her rather than make accommodations for her disability. They must now send a letter of condolences to her survivors, along with a check for $160,000.
The Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company this month entered negotiations with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to address health and safety violations recently cited against MBCR's Somerville maintenance facility.
Health advocates are ramping up pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove the keratin hair-straightening product Brazilian Blowout from the marketplace in light of a legal settlement announced today in a California court against the company that makes the product.
Please join us Wednesday, July 24th, at 12pm for the release of our new report, "Equal Treatment for Equal Work: The Need to Enhance Protections for Temporary Workers in Massachusetts." We hope to see you there!
The death of 64-year-old Manuel Viera, a ABC Disposal Inc. employee struck by a flatbed truck on Tuesday November 18, was a tragedy but not the first occupational incident for the New Bedford employer, according to the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH).
The form came loose and fell, crushing him underneath. Faria died on site from his injuries just 3 days before his 27th birthday. He was one of the 50 individuals who lost their lives last year because of work.
