Treating safety as an operational operating system rather than a compliance checklist prevents dangerous field complacency during periods of fluctuating federal oversight.

When two workers died last month in a violent chemical reaction at Ames Goldsmith Catalyst Refiners near Charleston, federal records showed the facility had previously been cited for safety violations ...

April 16, 2026 – Last week, the federal agency tasked with protecting Americans from workplace hazards removed specific goals that had previously resulted in a notable increase in inspections to ...

Employers may get a reprieve from a deadline that will require them to install additional safety systems on certain ladders on their worksites within 10 years. A new ...

This Monday, April 6, 206, OSHA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to eliminate a compliance deadline to install personal fall arrest/ladder safety systems on fixed ladders over 24 feet tall (i.e.

In this clip I joke about being 19 feet up an 18 foot step ladder with no harness and one foot in the pipe rack when OSHA shows up. I use a reaction meme face sliding up the ladder to capture that ...

Lifest is back at the Sunnyview Expo Center in Oshkosh for its 27th year. Jane Frances Cryan grew up in Milwaukee and spent her summers in Oshkosh with her grandmother grace and her uncle, Newell.

When you take one step forward on a ladder, don’t take two steps backward—or worse. Ladder falls can occur in a fraction of a second. Following the proper procedures for safe ladder usage is well ...

Labor advocates worry that the Trump administration is relaxing oversight of companies and increasing the potential for serious injuries and deaths. By Eileen Sullivan and Rebecca Davis O’Brien New ...

New Hampshire’s vehicle safety inspection program has been suspended until further notice, state officials announced late Friday. The on-again-off-again saga of the Legislature’s repeal of mandatory ...

The American Ladder Institute (ALI), the developer of safety standards for the U.S. ladder industry, has launched its 2026 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, continuing a multi-year effort ...