WORKER SAFETY: Employers face a Monday deadline...

WORKER SAFETY: Employers face a Monday deadline for having a written safety plan to prevent on-the-job illness and injury (D1). . . . Some say this is long overdue. “You can do more (prison) time under federal law for bothering a burro on federal land than you can for killing a worker,” said Peg Seminario, director of occupational safety and health at the AFL-CIO in Washington.