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OSHA officially has a new assistant administrator. Read about Dorothy Dougherty and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Humanity is capable of doing many great things. Unfortunately, we also are capable of causing many horrifying things.

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 28, President Barack Obama touched on how the growing oil and gas industry might help improve the economy and reduce pollution, and all but neglected the occupational safety side of things.

OSHA's and other safety agencies’ budgets are set for fiscal year 2014. Learn what the funding levels are, and more, in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. In today’s post, a West Virginia native sounds off about industrial safety in light of a devastating chemical release near Charleston, his city of birth.

With President Barack Obama signing the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 into law on Jan. 17, OSHA’s budget is now set for the rest of the current fiscal year. Let’s take a closer look.

Appropriation committees agree on OSHA’s budget, and the agency moves forward on safety initiatives for hospital workers and workers that encounter silica. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

A recent bipartisan appropriations would give OSHA’s budget a $17 million boost. Or is it an $11 million cut? It depends on how you look at it.