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Download Heat-Related Materials Heat advisory Hot Weather Advisory Fact Sheet Hot Weather Workplace Preventions OSHA HEAT STRESS CARDS SPANISH OSHA heat stress cards Heat stress and heat-related ...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2017/06/28/hot-weather-advisory-and-resources/

Extreme heat can kill or seriously injure workers. As summer approaches, we need to be prepared to keep workers safe with the additional stress of hot weather. There are lots of things we can do...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2015/06/29/2015-heat-advisory/

Every year on April 28—Workers Memorial Day—the UFCW joins workers in the U.S. and around the world to remember and pay tribute to the thousands of workers who have been killed on the job and...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2015/04/28/workers-memorial-day-2015/

OSHA’s updated recordkeeping rule expands the list of severe injuries that all employers must report to OSHA. Establishments located in states under Federal OSHA jurisdiction must begin to comp...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2015/01/01/updates-to-oshas-recordkeeping-rule-reporting-fatalities-and-severe-injuries/

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) today released the following statement regarding OSHA’s decision to exercise the seldom-used “general du...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2014/10/31/ufcw-applauds-oshas-effort-to-protect-poultry-workers-from-musculoskeletal-disorders-hazardous-workplace-conditions/

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), today released the following statement after the USDA published a fi...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2014/07/31/ufcw-president-hansen-statement-on-final-usda-poultry-modernization-rule/

The UFCW Occupational Safety and Health Office has released a guide that lists the workplace hazards that may occur in a retail workplace. The hazards listed in the guide are all violations of th...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/hazards-in-the-retail-workplace/

Even today, women who work in middle-class jobs across America face pronounced barriers and gender discrimination in the workplace, as exemplified by the recent Demos report on gender inequality ...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2014/07/17/the-bpa-act-fighting-breast-cancer-among-women-in-manufacturing/

With outside temperatures starting to soar, now is the time to make sure employers are taking the steps necessary to protect workers from heat stress and heat-related illness. Heat can cause more...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/committeeguide/heat/heatstress/

Today on April 28—Workers’ Memorial Day—the UFCW will join workers in the U.S. and around the world to honor the thousands of workers who have been killed on the job and the millions of wor...

http://safetyandhealth.ufcw.org/2014/04/28/on-workers-memorial-day-ufcw-continues-to-fight-for-workplace-safety/