HSED

Health and safety are not always at the top of a Local Union’s priority list. Still, ICWU Local 45C’s safety committee is making safety a priority, especially during their Safe and Sound Week festivities. During a week in October, Westlake Chemical and Local 45C acknowledged that safety is essential and accepted the mutual responsibility to work safely and follow the rules and standards that keep...

When asked about an industrial tragedy and specifically one that proved to progress health and safety for the better, first thoughts always turn to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Where mostly immigrant women and children were imprisoned to keep them on the job working six days a week in deplorable conditions, it was the habit of factory owners and supervisors at that time...