John Morawetz from the ICWUC Health & Safety Department testified for the ICWUC and UFCW on June 4 at a Senate Homeland Security Committee roundtable. We support a multi-year reauthorization of the Chemical Facility...
The ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Education would like to acknowledge Local 45c for making this happen!
Safe Summer Rules… The year is now half over and for most of us summer is in full swing. Too often as workers we step into our jobs wanting to perform the best we...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers that the deadline for electronically submitting their 2017 Form 300A data to OSHA is July 1, 2018. Electronic submissions are...
It is important you plan ahead if you are going to be working (or playing) in hot environments. OSHA recommends… Water/Rest/Shade Ensure that cool drinking water is available and easily accessible. (Note: Certain beverages,...
Most workers understand that they have safety and health protections on their jobs. Although enforcing those protections can be tricky. The primary enforcement agency in many workplaces is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Pictured below is Greg Malone, President of Local 252c, receiving a check from the ICWUC for finding the lead that resulted in an organizing win of 95 new members at Consolidated Nuclear Securities in...
One often overlooked route of exposure to chemicals we work with is the skin, our largest organ. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has just released new skin-notation profiles for nine...
We are proud to provide our members with a new series of benefits from our friends in the Union Labor Life Insurance Company (ULLICO). ULLICO can provide our members with many types of...
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...