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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.

Job Actions Will Save Lives as Frontline Workers Demand Better Sanitation and Safety Conditions

National COSH Statement in Support of Workers at Whole Foods, Amazon and Instacart Job Actions Will Save Lives asFrontline Workers Demand BetterSanitation and Safety Conditions

Coronavirus at work: Employers Responsible for Prevention Measures, Say Safety Advocates

Coronavirus at work: Employers Responsible for PreventionMeasures, Say Safety Advocates “Discrimination Doesn’t Make Us Safer”

Two Worker Deaths in January Show Need for Reforms in U.S. Poultry Slaughterhouses

Tragic New Year for Poultry WorkersTwo Worker Deaths in January Show Need forReforms in U.S. Poultry Slaughterhouses Safety advocates call for end to line speed-ups andan increase in wall-to-wall safety inspections

COSHCON19 Highlights

Many thanks to all who worked so hard to bring together another amazing National Conference on Worker Safety and Health. We’ve been looking over the evaluations from the event, and the feedback we received from participants shows that your hard work paid off at COSHCON19. “Meeting so many occupational safety and health activists was amazing,” said Yasin Khan, director of public programs at the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program, one of more than 300 participants at this year’s conference.

Pushing Back Against the Idea of “Freak Accidents”

On average, 14 workers are killed on the job every day in the U.S., with three to four of those workers being from the construction industry. These stories are often covered in the local or national media, but because most reporters are not familiar with worker safety practices or OSHA rules, the articles often claim the death was the result of a “freak accident.”

National COSH Calls 10-year Spike in Workplace Deaths “Preventable and Unacceptable”

National COSH Calls 10-year Spike in WorkplaceDeaths “Preventable and Unacceptable” Safety advocates say employers must be held accountablefor failure to control on-the-job hazards and workersmust be active and involved in safety programs