Worker compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labor Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap ...

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

These are way more eye-catching than those televised public service announcements about carbon monoxide leaks and downed power lines. They’re also straight-up ghoulish. Over at 50 Watts, art and ...

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It is time once again for students around the world to sharpen their pencils and charge up their video cameras as the American Society of Safety Engineers announces the kick-off of its 2015 Workplace ...

Sixteen-year-old Jane Adams won first place in a youth safety poster contest at a recent three-day youth leadership conference in Dorchester. In light of a recent study published by the state ...

State and federal laws require employers to post labor law posters and notices in the workplace. Regulations require employers to display the posters in a "conspicuous" place where employees and, with ...

“Safety is as Safety Does” and “Ignoring a Warning Can Cause Much Mourning” are two of the more creative safety slogans I’ve heard. Such inventive catch phrases and workplace safety posters are just ...