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 "job safety" ...
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Covering the Recession in Wisconsin
Stein's powerpoint outlines where to look for data and information on the economic climate of Wisconsin, from specific economic sectors to social safety nets in the community. While a lot of this information is specific to resources in Wisconsin, it give reporters an idea of where to look for various sources of information.
Tags: Recession; Wisconsin; jobs; unemployment; U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; Wisconsin Department of Revenue; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; FDIC; Generally Accepted Accounting Practices; GAAP
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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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Dying for a Job: CBC News Investigation
excellent tipsheet outlining sources and pitfalls for doing workplace safety investigations. applicable to U.S.
Tags: workplace safety; workplace deaths; accidents; workplace violence;
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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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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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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
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Job Profiles and Occupational Health Reporting
A list of federal, state and local sources for covering job profiles and occupational health.
Tags: OSHA; worker safety; unions; labor
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Job Profiles and Occupational Health Reporting
Web addresses of federal, NGO and academic organisations involved in occupational safety and health related domains, agreements and resources towards worker's compensation and a guide on how to report on OSHA activity.
Tags: OSHA; NICAR; Job; compensation; union; NIOSH; labour; immigrants
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Tipsheet No: 479
This packet is a collection of information relating to the case of Patrick Hayes being smothered to death by an avalanche of corn in a grain storage bin at Showell Farms Chicken Processing Plant in Defuniak Springs, Fla. Each year 6,000 people are killed on the job. Hayes' parents formed a group, The FIGHT Project (Families in Grief Hold Together), to help others. This packet contains articles about their OSHA claim as well as the Freedom of Information problems they are encountering. See Morgue File #12472 for transcript and tape of Hayes case.
Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA FOI
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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.