Feature Articles
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May 19, 2021MassCOSH’s Teens Lead @ Work program is pleased to be able to provide free trainings to young people this summer. Email joe.tache@masscosh.org ... read more
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April 28, 2021Links for the first time working outside the home to a dramatic risk of death due to COVID-19
On December 10, 2019, Vidal Bravo Cifuentes, a 34-year-old day laborer, was killed during a tree removal operation at a... read more
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April 13, 2021Health Resources in Action (HRA), in collaboration with MA. Department of Public Health is offering a virtual, two-hour interactive training based on MassCOSH’s research on the role that workplace pain and injury can play in... read more
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April 13, 2021Since the very beginning of the pandemic, MassCOSH’s Programs and Policy Director Al Vega has been working closely with our allies and members like the Brockton Workers Alliance, the Mass. Nurses Association, SEIU Local 888, and... read more
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April 13, 2021This past March was Women's History Month and MassCOSH’s Worker Center honored it in part by holding a training for immigrant women on sexual harassment at work and how to recognize sex and gender discrimination.
The... read more
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April 12, 2021Jordan Romero and Carlos Gutierres, left for work early one morning this past February, never to return home. Killed on the job working for a construction company with a record of health and safety violations, Jordan and Carlos... read more
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April 12, 2021*Zoom registration information below*
Under the Trump Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) did little to protect workers from the coronavirus... read more -
March 22, 2021On February 1, 2019, after a decade-long campaign, a new law went into effect that established federal OSHA regulations as the minimum safety standard for public workers. Before the law went into effect, city, town, higher... read more
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March 22, 2021*Update 4/1/2021* Thanks to those who made their voices heard, the Boston Public School district was granted a waiver to start school at a later date!
Over the last year, MassCOSH has worked closely with teachers’ unions to... read more
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March 22, 2021MassCOSH is very proud to announce that its three senior Teens Lead @ Work peer leaders are graduating from high school with very promising future plans.
Kyle Jackson sees himself going into the professional trades. He is... read more