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 "Worker's Compensation" ...
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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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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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Woker Health and Safety
A detailed collection of resources and story ideas on worker's compensation.
Tags: worker safety; worker's compensation; OSHA; unions
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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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Worker's Compensation
This tipsheet helped outline Fricker's investigation into worker's compensation and gives contact names and numbers.
Tags: worker safety; Fricker
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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.