New Health, Safety Data Drives Advocates' Push For Stricter OSHA Policies

New federal health and safety data showing an increase in the number of workplace injury and deaths is prompting new calls from labor and other advocates for policymakers to strengthen OSHA's policies and practices, including issuance of long-awaited standards, increased enforcement and inspection funds and stepped up focus on immigrant, temporary and older workers, as well as those in the public and oil & gas sectors. Relying largely on recently released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for...