News & Alerts

• April 24, 2013 Save the Date - COSH Hosting the 3rd Annual National Worker Safety and Health Conference The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) will be hosting a 3rd Annual National Worker Safety and Health Conference December 11-12, 2013 in Baltimore, MD, at the Maritime Training Center.
• April 16, 2013 USW Study Warns Public about Dangers of Hydrofluoric Acid Use in Refinery Alkylation Process to Produce Clean-Burning Gasoline A United Steelworkers (USW) study released today-"A Risk Too Great, Hydrofluoric Acid in U.S. Refineries"-warns that refiners that use hydrofluoric acid (HF) in their alkylation process to make clean-burning gasoline do not have adequate safety systems in place and are not prepared to handle a release.
• March 25, 2013 Announcing the 2013 United Steelworkers' Health, Safety and Environment Conference The 2013 United Steelworkers’ Health, Safety and Environment Conference will be held September 23-27 at the Pittsburgh Convention Center and Westin Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• February 19, 2013 Workers Memorial Day Materials Available Order materials to help your local union remember workers killed on the job.
• January 11, 2013 USW’s Chemical Safety App Receives Award From DOL A digital application developed by the United Steelworkers’ Tony Mazzocchi Center was one of four winning entries in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Worker Safety and Health App Challenge.
• December 13, 2012 USW Representative Appointed to OSHA Whistleblower Committee The United Steelworkers today lauded the appointment of Nancy Lessin, a longtime activist on behalf of worker health and safety, to a seat on the 12-member federal Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (WPAC). Lessin was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
• December 10, 2012 USW HSE Dept & TMC Receive NCOSH 2012 Tony Mazzocchi Award The USW was nominated because of the union's strong commitment to its members' health and safety and its leadership in protecting all workers.
• September 13, 2012 New Worker Health Protection Program Video of Former USW Workers at the Oak Ridge DOE Sites WHPP interviewed some of the former workers from the Oak Ridge DOE sites who had been through the program and asked them how participating in the WHPP medical screening program had been helpful to them.
• August 14, 2012 USW Marks 4th Anniversary of Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act America’s children are safer today because of the enactment four years ago of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which was supported by a United Steelworkers (USW) drive to ban lead in imported children’s toys.
• May 10, 2012 USW Welcomes GAO Report on Employer Policies, Programs and Practices that Discourage Workplace Injury Reporting The United Steelworkers (USW) today welcomed the release of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that underscores the pervasive nature of employer policies, programs and practices that discourage workers from reporting job injuries and illnesses ...