Wrapping up, holiday reads

We at National COSH are busy wrapping up during the end of the year, especially as we sift through photos, edit videos, and read through evaluations from last week’s hugely successful National Worker Safety and Health Conference. (We promise an update about the conference and all of the accompanying goodies is coming soon!) But as we’re playing catch-up, we realize you might be ready to wind down for the year.

Looking for some health and safety holiday reads? Journalists have been churning out some quality work that is sure to fire you up for another year.

• ProPublica’s latest investigation into temporary workers’ health and safety: “Temporary Work, Lasting Harm”
• A Center for Public Integrity investigation finding that the rising caseload – combined with the reduction in staff of the U.S. Department of Labor’s judges – leads to a painful mix for suffering laborers
• Another Center for Public Integrity investigation shining light on the extremely high prevalence of bladder cancer among workers at a Goodyear plant in upstate New York.