National COSH is accepting nominations for its 2025 Dirty Dozen report and relocating its annual COSHCON conference to Chicago.

“We know from long experience that the surest way to make our workplaces safer is to put workers at the center of the conversation,” said Jessica E. Martinez, executive director of National COSH. “Workers know their jobs. They know where the hazards are and how to eliminate them.

“More than 5,200 deaths on the job is still way too many,” said Jessica Martinez, executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH). “We are also deeply concerned that Black and Brown workers continue to suffer from a higher rate of occupational fatalities, a sign of the persistent effects of discrimination in our workplaces.”
 

"We know from long experience that the surest way to make our workplaces safer is to put workers at the center of the conversation," said Jessica E. Martinez, executive director of National COSH. "Workers know their jobs. They know where the hazards are and how to eliminate them.

“The average third grader gets more training in what to do (with an active shooter) than most workers,” said Jessica Martinez, executive director of the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health, a public interest group."

“More than 5,200 deaths on the job is still way too many,” Jessica E. Martinez, executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, said in a statement.  “We are also deeply concerned that Black and Brown workers continue to suffer from a higher rate of occupational fatalities, a sign of the persistent effects of discrimination in our workplaces.”

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has been training workers and advocacy groups as well. And much more.

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has said that allowing workers to select their own third-party experts to accompany inspections ensures that information about workplace conditions can be accurately communicated across language barriers, and may also reduce fear of retaliation from employers.

His first heat stroke came in 2018, when he lost consciousness and had to be hospitalized. The episode inspired WeCount!, an immigrant and worker advocacy group, to campaign for a local law that would require employers to provide water and rest and shade breaks for Miami-Dade County’s more than 60,000 agriculture and construction workers on excessively hot days.
 

Oxfam is far from the only organization that has tried to take action against Amazon and Walmart; earlier this year, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) named Walmart to its “Dirty Dozen” list, accusing it of “unsafe and reckless” conduct toward its employees.

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH), which advocates for abuse- and exploitation-free workplaces, is building on local organizing with a nationwide campaign to pass the federal OSHA rule. It has 20 local affiliates and also serves as a hub for smaller grassroots groups like Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), a worker center in Illinois. 
 

Workplace violence is a “known and dangerous workplace hazard,” particularly in retail environments, said Jessica Martinez, co-executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.
 

In the interim, workers are fighting for what the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) calls “heat justice.” COSH, a federation of 26 grassroots worker groups, is advocating for a slightly more comprehensive national heat standard than proposed by OSHA. The COSH standard would require workplaces to maintain a maximum temperature of 80 degrees, and if that is exceeded, ensure that workers have access to water and breaks in air-conditioned spaces.

Ascension — the largest nonprofit and Catholic health system in the United States as of 2021, with 140 hospitals in 19 states — has come under fire from the NNU and other labor advocacy groups. In April, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a worker health and safety advocacy group, listed Ascension among its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of employers, alleging poor safety practices and “severe staff cuts” that “create unsafe conditions for patients and workers” in its report.

“It is hard to overstate how life saving this proposal will be if it becomes a rule,” said Katelyn Parady, a Phoenix-based staffer with the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.

“Not only talking about the need for the rule,” Parker said during a Sept. 5 webinar hosted by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, “but how we can make the rule better would be really, really helpful from workers. These are conversations that are often dominated by industry organizations. Workers’ voices on these issues are critical.”

According to Katelyn Parady, Phoenix staffer of the National Council for Occupational Safety, said federal enforcement is vital to make sure working Arizonans are staying safe because the local enforcement does not protect all workers who work in the deadly heat.

“The numbers we’re talking about are very small,” Parady said. “I think in Phoenix the estimate is that it’s going to cover something like 10,000 people, and obviously we know many, many more people are dealing with heat on the job here.”

Only five U.S. states currently have their own heat safety standards for workers. Katelyn Parady, a Phoenix staffer of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, says Arizona is not included in that list.

As extreme heat continues to pose a threat to workers across the United States, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) is organizing a virtual town hall to address this issue. 

“There’s ample data going back decades that shows that Black and Latino workers have the most dangerous, dirtiest job assignments, and immigrant Latino workers typically face a higher risk of both fatal and nonfatal injuries on the job,” said Jessica Martinez, Los Angeles-based co-executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.