50 years of NIOSH and 30 years of NIOSH in Alaska

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• Alternative Title:
  Fifty years of NIOSH and thirty years of NIOSH in Alaska
• Personal Author:
  Teske, Theodore D. ; Hill, Ryan ; O’Connor, Mary ; Lucas, Devin
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  For the past 30 years, NIOSH has operated a small research office in Anchorage, Alaska. The NIOSH Division of Safety Research established the Alaska Field Station in 1991 to address the high rate of occupational fatalities among workers in the state. Surveillance from 1980-1989 showed Alaska had the highest rate of occupational fatality in the nation, seven times higher than the rate for all U.S. workers. Initially this high rate was attributed to the harsh environment and remote workplaces, however when Alaska was compared to other Nordic nations operating with similar industries in similar conditions, the rate remained much higher than in areas of Scandinavia.
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events CDC--history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century NIOSH--history Occupational Diseases/prevention & Control Occupational Exposure/prevention & Control Occupational Health Safety Management
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Blogs
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:380103c67ae232f6a00dd41efbb141d9a33f42be97b8f88bee06f9c5613879eb86c45fb1704efc6482e67558724f74467dfe62cfffb5f2da15c084b0e4dfd282
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/111043/cdc_111043_DS1.pdf
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