OSHA

Fighting fires has evolved, but federal safety regulations haven’t changed for nearly half a century. Now the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed new safety standards. It's great news for professional firefighters, but volunteer departments say the new rules could bog them down with expensive and irrelevant regulations.

From Harvest Public Media:On the worst day of Greta Horner’s life, she was dressed in a burlap robe, waiting by the window for her husband to come home…

From Harvest Public Media:The nights were often worse for Gabriel, even after long days working on the production line at a pork slaughterhouse in…

From Harvest Public Media:In the first nine months of 2015, workers in meat-packing plants owned by Tyson Foods averaged at least one amputation a month.…

A Kansas grain cooperative has been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing safety…

The nation’s top safety watchdog lacks the resources or ability to set and enforce rules in a timely manner reports The Washington Post. In 2012, the…