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A podcast designed to inform and educate North Carolina citizens on the role that the Department of Labor plays in state government.
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LaJuan Smith presents Carolina STAR as supervised, practical safety work built through training, travel, and company relationships.
The Carolina STAR program is framed as steady, field-based work inside the North Carolina Department of Labor, where observation, training, and long-term company contact shape the consultant role.
A safety consultant makes workplace safety feel like responsibility toward the people sharing the day.
Inside NC Labor frames workplace safety through the North Carolina Department of Labor's public-facing role, with Erin Wilson and Meredith Watson speaking to Debbie Rogers-Lowry of Compliance Training Associates.
A clear, practical review of youth work certificates and wage questions handled by North Carolina's Labor Department.
Inside NC Labor looks at how North Carolina's Department of Labor handles wage-and-hour questions, with Keisha Scotton of the Wage and Hour Bureau and Adriana Jordan, her executive assistant, grounding the discussion in the youth employment certificate process.
Josh Dobson looks back on how North Carolina's Department of Labor handled COVID, health care workplace standards, and the vaccine mandate.
North Carolina's Department of Labor comes through Commissioner Josh Dobson's account of leading the agency during COVID, federal workplace standards for health care providers, and the vaccine mandate.
Career paths put a human scale on North Carolina workplace-safety work.
Inside NC Labor treats the North Carolina Department of Labor as a working institution, showing how occupational safety and health work is shaped by the careers of Paul Sullivan and Lamont Smith.
Oregon's energy agency, explaining its own work
North Carolina Department of Labor's legal affairs team handles administrative subpoenas when inspected entities withhold documents, while the Attorney General's Office litigates cases.
Inside NC Labor: Episode 72 features Carolina STAR board members explaining how their annual Greensboro conference promotes workplace safety across North Carolina.
Inside NC Labor Episode 71 centers on the Carolina STAR program at the North Carolina Department of Labor, which exists to promote effective safety and health management systems.
Debbie Rogers-Lowry says a small business "owns me" after 32 years running Compliance Training Associates, where her family helps with certificates, filing, and spreadsheets.
Inside NC Labor Episode 68 turns on a new online wage complaint form, which Keisha Scotton says employees can file any time and which had already logged 142 complaints after a mid-December launch.
Commissioner Josh Dobson says his 2.7 million-vote general-election win still felt humbling because 2.6 million people voted for the other name on the ballot.
Paul Sullivan says North Carolina was the only OSHA program hiring when he interviewed after the 1991 Hamlet disaster, which led him to start with the department on August 1, 1993.
Inside NC Labor guest Lee Peacock says the department's Toys for Tots campaign has collected more than 19,000 toys since its 1999 start.
This episode discusses heat stress hazards and solutions in agriculture with experts from the NC Department of Labor and NC State Cooperative Extension.
An introduction to the North Carolina Department of Labor's Consultative Services Bureau and its chief Kevin O'Barr, discussing his background and the bureau's work.
This episode discusses grain safety with experts from the NC Department of Labor and the NC Agro-Medicine Institute, covering regulations and outreach for agricultural workers.
Commissioner Cherie Berry and communications staff discuss 2019 highlights of the North Carolina Department of Labor, including safety awards and a historic low injury rate.