http://blog.jordanbarab.com News and Commentary on Workplace Health and Safety, Labor and Politics Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:04:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to a requirement with a new position, Confined Space is no longer published, although the archives are still on the web here.  http://blog.jordanbarab.com/2008/07/02/this-main-confined-space/ Here's one I haven't seen before. A concerned health and safety construction trainer sent me this memo that one of his students from Briggs Engineering in Massachusetts had given him. The Briggs employee was distressed by the memo and said that he felt that management was putting the financial responsibility for health ... http://blog.jordanbarab.com/2007/02/01/dont-make-me-hurt-you/ With the death of Klever Ramiro Jara in a 17 story fall from a scaffold earlier this week, there have now been 17 fatal falls in New York city in the past year. Most of the workers killed in New York construction accidents have been immigrants. Officials said the employee in ... http://blog.jordanbarab.com/2007/02/01/ny-city-plagued-by-fatal-falls/ OK, this is interesting, even if it happened in another far off country, north of the border. I mean we almost never even send people to jail for willfully ignoring a safety standard that leads to the death of a worker. This guy gets jail for a bruised shin: Seeley's Bay contractor ... http://blog.jordanbarab.com/2007/01/29/a-month-in-jail-and-no-one-even-died/