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Leading the fight for safe and healthy workplaces

Our Mission

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health is dedicated to promoting safe and healthy working conditions for all working people through organizing and advocacy. Our belief that almost all work-related deaths and serious injuries and illnesses are preventable motivates us to encourage workers to take action to protect their safety and health, promote protection from retaliation under job safety laws, and provide quality information and training about hazards on the job and workers’ rights.

OSHA’s Plan to Improve Communications with Families

Workplace Deaths: Safety Groups Welcome OSHA’s Plan to Improve Communications with Families More action by Congress needed to prevent tragedies which claim 5,000+ lives from workplace trauma each year, and 95,000+ from long-term exposures

ROC United Report Reveals Wage Disparities, Lack of Job Protection, Poverty for Millions of U.S. Restaurant Workers During Pandemic

ROC United’s Report Reveals Wage Disparities,Lack of Job Protection, Poverty that Millions of U.S. Restaurant WorkersFace During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 State of the Restaurant Workers Report Released Today, July 21, 2021

Urgent Call for Reform at U.S. Chemical Safety Board

Urgent Call for Reform at U.S. Chemical Safety Board 22 Labor, Environmental, Scientific and Public Interest GroupsSay Understaffed Agency, with Record Backlog of Investigations, Is Failing to Protect Workers and the Public

Town Hall with OSHA puts worker priorities front and center

[Este es un mensaje bilingüe. Más abajo en español] Town Hall with OSHA puts worker priorities front and center

National COSH on Tragic Death of Oregon Farmworker from Heat Stress: “Unless we turn knowledge into action, more workers will get sick and die.”

Dark Work, Devalued and Unprotected

Dark Work, Devalued and Unprotected: From 1619 to COVID-19 By: Erica Perry, Co-Director Workers’ Dignity and Aaron Greene, Board Member of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights (Workers Dignity and Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights are both COSH Network Affiliates)