Labor Secretary Solis Vows Intensified Workplace Health And Safety Enforcement

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http://www.laborradio.org/node/11018

By Doug Cunningham

More than five thousand workers are killed on the job every year in the U.S. Another 50,000 die each year from occupation-related diseases. At the National Labor College in Maryland, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis marked Workers Memorial Day this week by vowing to ramp up safety enforcement for workers on the job.

: “When it comes to workplace protection, workplace health and workplace safety. let me be clear - the Department of Labor is back in the enforcement business. Under my watch enforcement of our labor laws will be intensified to provide an effective deterrent to employers who put their workers' lives at risk."