Overview Residents from the Village of Endicott, New York have been concerned about residential and workplace exposure from a microelectronics and business machines manufacturing facility in Endicott. These concerns led to studies of area residents and also led the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Congressional representatives from New York, and community stakeholders to ask the Na...

The study analyzed cancers and cancer deaths through 2009 among 29,993 firefighters from the Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco fire departments who were employed since 1950. The study was led by NIOSH in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Public Health Sciences in the University of California at Davis. The study was supported in part by funding from th...

Ethylene oxide is a highly reactive epoxide gas and a direct alkylating agent with chemical properties that make it a potent mutagen and a potential human carcinogen.4 It has been used commercially in the United States since the 1950s for sterilization of medical supplies, pharmaceutical products, and spices. NIOSH estimates that 270,000 workers may be exposed annually, with high levels of expo...

c o i f i n S t e p Eye Safety is Everyone’s Business” is the theme designated by the National Eye Institute (NEI) for the observance of this year’s Healthy Eyes Month (see igure 1). Each day, about 2,000 U.S. workers sustain ob-related eye injuries that require medical treatment, acording to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety n...

PURPOSE OF STUDY  The direct care workforce continues to rank as one of the most frequently injured employee groups in North America. Occupational health and safety studies have shown that workplace injuries translate into negative outcomes for workers and their employers. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Organization of Work and Occupational Safety and Health f...