http://www.king5.com/news/local/hanford/safety-failures-lead-to-death-sentence-at-hanford/409183472

http://www.foreffectivegov.org/whatsatstake-workersafety

Students in Dangerous Work will remember Dr. Commoner’s collaboration with Tony Mazzochi for worker and public health. The NY Times obituary is fascinating:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html?pagewanted=1&tntemail1=y&_r=1&emc=tnt

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/29-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztPuY7uE1S4&feature=player_embedded#!

Full Committee Hearing – Time Takes Its Toll: Delays in OSHA’s Standard-Setting Process and the Impact on Worker Safety

Here’s the video of the hearing

Here’s the testimony of Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH , Clinical Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health University of WA School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Retired Director of State OSHA Program at Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Seattle, WA

“OSHA doesn’t kill jobs — it keeps jobs from killing people.” — Sen. Harkin

Here’s the 1938 video, Stop Silicosis, made by the Department of Labor under Secretary Frances Perkins.

Thanks to Mary B. in Dangerous Work for sharing this documentary about the Radium Girls in the Ottawa, IL Westclox plant. There are many interviews with radium workers, who gone now. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLS6NCZPiSY&feature=youtu.be

Here’s a New York Times review:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/movies/film-festival-a-view-of-the-radium-dial-horror.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

A lecture by David Harvey on the roots of the global economic crisis

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/06/28/rsa-animate-crisis-capitalism/

Lewis Hine was a progressive era reformer who exposed child labor and all kinds of dangerous work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17673213