Report on occupational safety and health for fiscal year 1995.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The work accomplished by NIOSH in the year 1995 in efforts to promote occupational safety and health was summarized in this report. These included the publication of the criteria for a new recommended standard to protect workers against black lung disease; increased emphasis in four critical occupational safety and health research areas of surveillance, intervention, health services, and work organization; work with industry, labor and the public to revise outdated national standards for respirators used to protect workers from hazardous environments; added a seventh Agricultural Safety and Health Research Center to a national network of centers to reduce illnesses and injuries among farm workers; funded a Connecticut program that reduced overall blood lead (7439921) levels among road construction workers by 50%; published a study which indicated that gold miners had an increased risk of silicosis; collaborated with industry and labor to reduce exposures to asphalt and metalworking fluids, and reduce hearing loss, job stress, and back injuries in the workplace; and funded 14 educational resource centers at universities in 13 states.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Automobiles Digestive System Digestive System Diseases Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety Vehicle Emissions Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Agricultural-industry Construction-industry Hearing-loss Job-stress Metalworking Mining-industry Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Noise-exposure Risk-factors Silica-dusts

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-26
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00240356
• Citation:
  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1997 Jan; :1-26
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180989/cdc_180989_DS1.pdf
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