The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
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Job Safety: Getting and Making Sense of the Data
The author lists and describes sources for workplace safety information, such as OSHA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also offers tips for working with these information sources.
Tags: OSHA; worker safety; job safety; federal government
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Covering worker safety and health
"Every day, more than 16 American workers die and 12,000 more are injured on the job. That doesn’t include those who die from occupational diseases, which claim another 50,000 to 60,000 each year. No matter where you do journalism, there are a lot of stories there."
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2688. Borenstein da informacion acerca de como AP reporto el desastre minero de Sago, asi como utiles enlaces weba otras historias sobre el mismo tema. Tambien proporciona varias lecciones para periodistas que esten involucrados en dichos proyectos.
Tags: seguridad en el trabajo; seguridad minera; mineria; Administracion de Seguridad Minera y de Salud; MSHA; OSHA; espanol; 2688
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Tipsheet for Workplace Safety
McKie discusses his recent investigation into workplace safety. He includes information about how he started the project, how he found the data, the type of analysis he used, and how the story was eventually reported.
Tags: OSHA; worker safety; worker's compensation; job safety; business; industry
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Investigating workplace safety
Borenstein provides his PowerPoint presentation on investigating workplace safety. The presentation provides information about how the AP reported on the Sago mine disaster, along with helpful Web links to other stories on the subject. He also provides a number of lessons for reporters who are undertaking such projects. En espanol: #2892
Tags: Worker safety; Sago; Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA); Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
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Worker Safety and C.A.R
This tipsheet is a good resource for reporters covering a mining accident for the first time. The author suggests places to start the investigation, like the Mine Safety and Health Administration's website. Johnson also offers some tips to avoid common mistakes when covering mines.
Tags: mining; OSHA; coal; MSHA; Department of Labor
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OSHA / Workplace Tipsheet
This tipsheet is about how to do an OSHA investigation without being overwhelmed. It includes advice about analyzing the data, as well as suggestions for making the data more manageable. The tipsheet ends with a list on web resources for an OSHA project.
Tags: Occupational Safety; data analysis; CAR; workers; unions; Labor and Industry Department.
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"Using data to uncover workplace dangers and abuses"
This tipsheet provides tips on how to find data from agencies, and what to do if agencies won't give you data. It also includes information about analyzing data sets. The tipsheet also includes a list of important data sources, with links to their websites and descriptions of the data they might have. Additionally, this tipsheet has resources from the U.S. Department of Labor and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health websites that includes a list of their available statistics and data sets.
Tags: U.S. Department of Labor; Injuries; Illnesses; Fatalities; record keeping; NIOSH; respirators and personal protective equipment; agency; workers' compensation; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; OSHA; licensing agencies; Health departments; environmental health standards; institutional health standards; public health hazards
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Reporting/Writing about work place deaths
Pritchard gives tips for reporting on worker safety and lists government databases that can be used for analysis. He also gives ideas on the kind of sources that can be used for such stories.
Tags: worker safety; workplace deaths; workplace accidents; worker abuses; OSHA
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Death on the Job
The safety conditions for working illegal immigrants in America is difficult to determine. Since illegal immigrants do not have any documents you have to dig to find the info you need. Maier points reporters in the right direction for data and information on illegal immigrants who die on the job.
Tags: labor; statistics; OSHA; Department of labor; worker safety; immigrants; illegal immigrants