Agricultural workers are six times more likely to die on the job than the average American worker.
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The Thorpe rail crash in September 1874 killed 25 people.
With 70 work-related deaths each year, the government’s review of health and safety rules is very timely. But simply reducing red tape won’t fix the deeper problems.
National Day of Mourning should be used to challenge misconceptions about occupational health and safety, and advance safer workplaces for Canadians.
A recession in the US would lead to more workplace shootings.
While a workplace fatality is a great tragedy, an even greater tragedy is not learning from it.
Insecure jobs, insufficient training and the marginalisation of unions have contributed to a tragic record of construction fatalities.
The food we eat and the products we use should not contribute to human misery. While companies hold some blame, so do consumers who avoid dealing with the consequences of their purchasing decisions.
The industry relies on traditional family knowledge so it has been resistant to a culture of health and safety.
The death of apprentice Dillon Wu at a Melbourne factory raises questions about employer responsibility when a traditional employment relationship doesn’t exist.
Every day people around the world go to work expecting to return home safely to their families. But the reality is that many never return due to workplace accidents that could have been prevented.
Rising suicides form part of the profound transformations in the workplace that have taken place over the past 30 years.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the regulatory agency with primary responsibility for enforcing health and safety law across British workplaces, has released its latest annual statistics. According…
One year ago on the 24th of April 2013, the horrific Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh claimed at least 1,129 lives and galvanised industry and government into action. Worldwide condemnation for lax safety…
The construction industry is a major part of the Australian economy. Construction sites are everywhere. Some of them are recognisable from kilometres away due to their impressive tower cranes. You may…
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