Worker safety articles
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Joint Statement from the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) to mark International Workers' Memorial Day and the International Labour Organization's World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024.
This year's theme ‘The impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health' seeks a drastic shift in political priorities, policy coherence and agenda setting to address climate change, occupational safety and health hazards and risks to workers. With occupational climate-related health risks expected to increase because of climate change, achieving a collective approach to deal with this global health crisis is not a quick fix. We come together to remember those who have sadly lost ()
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FRA issues safety bulletin following death of maintenance-of-way worker
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration issued a safety bulletin today in the wake of a fatal accident involving a maintenance-of-way worker who was pinned by an excavator’s bucket. “FRA is actively investigating this accident, and is issuing this bulletin to remind railroads, railroad employees, and railroad contractors of the importance of ensuring proper safety []Read More
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FRA halts safety culture assessment of Union Pacific, citing coaching of workers
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration has discontinued efforts to gather information for an assessment of Union Pacific’s safety culture, telling the railroad it found indications of activities by the railroad that “adversely impact the integrity” of the process. The railroad, in a statement to Trains News Wire, says the issue arose from a mistake []Read More