Press Releases

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health and the Occupational Health and Safety Section of the American Public Health Association released today Protecting Workers on the Job: Seven Priorities for Federalaction in 2009, a platform of recommendations aimed at reversing the erosion of the worker safety protections that has put the nation's workers at a heightened risk of injury, illness and death. Protecting Workers on the Job: Seven Priorities for Federal Action in 2009

According to John Pajak, President of the New Jersey Work Environment Council, "While we have differences with some of Governor Corzine's environmental policies, Lisa Jackson has proven an able DEP Commissioner and has helped make New Jersey safer and more secure by adopting new and precedent-setting policies pushing chemical plants to adopt safer processing methods and by engaging workers and their unions during environmental inspections. See the Press Release here

Kuehne Chemical, in South Kearny, New Jersey, has been cited and fined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for 33 worker safety and health violations, including lapses that could lead to a toxic chlorine release into surrounding communities. See the Press Release here