Topic: worker safety

A worker, engulfed inside a plume created by the CIPP process, speaks with a researcher who wears a full face respirator to protect against chemical exposures. (Courtesy of Andrew Whelton / Undark)

Questions linger over worker's death

Robin Lloyd - Undark
A man delivers sides of beaf to meat to a butcher shop in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, March 20, 2017. The European Union's spokesman in Brazil says the union is temporarily halting some imports of Brazilian meat amid an investigation into a massive scheme of meat adulteration, which involved some of the country's largest producers. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) (AP)

Meatpacking jobs: Life-or-death

Taylor Ford - Truthout
This Jan. 5, 2017, photo shows Macy's flagship store in New York. Retailers are doing a delicate dance when it comes to handling the Ivanka Trump brand. Macy's carries the brand's clothes, shoes and other accessories. Retailers are figuring out to deal with the highly politically charged Ivanka Trump brand. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

COVID business immunity: bad idea?

Timothy D. Lytton - The Conversation
The prices farmers receive for crops do not cover all the costs of keeping farms viable, not to mention the extra costs of ecological or regenerative farming systems. The farm crisis is not over. (Pixabay/Pexels)

Small farm dodges OSHA investigation

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
(AP/John Locher/Salon)

Trump aims to shield corporations

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
A picture taken on December 6, 2016 shows chickens at a henhouse near Loon-Plage. France raised its risk level for avian flu to "high" after new cases of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus were detected (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

"A deadly trap"

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica
FILE- In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, a Bangladeshi child works at a clothes-dyeing factory in Narayanganj, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new study by the London-based Overseas Development Institute found that thousands of Bangladeshi children who live in the capital's slums are working illegally for an average of 64 hours a week. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) (AP)

Bangladesh worker safety in jeopardy

Michelle Chen - In These Times
Burning Man participants compete in the swimming leg of the annual Black Rock City triathlon at the Burning Man festival. (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man is hell on the help

Keith A. Spencer, Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Heat regulations for workers?

Sarah Okeson
(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Workplace deaths are rising

Bruce Vail - In These Times
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) (AP)

Radiation warnings go unheeded

Patrick Malone, Peter Cary
(Reuters/L.E. Baskow/AP/Erik Schelzig/Photo montage by Salon)

Elizabeth Grossman - In These Times
(Shutterstock/Salon)

McDonald's let my arm burn!

Brittney Berry
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-54512p1.html'>Gabi Moisa, </a> <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-276790p1.html'>Alexander Marushin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Jenny Kutner

Jenny Kutner
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Jenny Kutner