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:
Search results for "Safety in the workplace" ...
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From Database to Story - A Step-by-step Guide
Harbord and McKie show how you can utilize OSHA data to tell the story of workplace safety in non-traditional industries such as healthcare, schools (e.g., violence) and business (carpal tunnel syndrome). Their tipsheet walks you through the process of analyzing the data. And how to compare this information to other data sets to obtain a more complete sense of "the story."
Tags: data; database; OSHA; query; NAICS; excel; pivot tables; inspections; NICAR; National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting
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Reporting/Writing about workplace deaths
Pritchard explains where to get information about death in the workplace, how to deal with that information and how to talk to certain people with information.
Tags: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries; Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Covering the Workplace
This handout covers how to analyze public pension funds, and how to cover safety in the workplace. The handout includes agencies to contact and Internet sites to access for information on workplace safety. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.--ask for tape #28.
Tags: Cracking open state nest eggs; CAR in the Workplace; Safety in the workplace
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Ohio, Ohio
The Dayton Daily News created an information packaged called infoPLUS in fall 1994. The package uses traditional and computer-assisted reporting with graphics to provide area readers extensive information on topics that interest them. Included in this handout are the actual graphics used. Topics include workplace issues, traffic and travel, crime and safety, education and government and community. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
Tags: None
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Starting a workplace safety project
Outlines how to proceed in a workplace safety project; includes source list, background on Occupational Safety and Health Administration, computer vs. non-computer reporting and public records. Also includes whom to write for the OSHA database, institutions that have the OSHA tapes and can perform analysis, sample federal inspection list, reported occupational injury incidence rates by industry. Casey and Carollo's IRE award winning series on OSHA is Morgue File #8223.