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The loss of the CDC’s occupational safety office, NIOSH, may have long-term consequences, particularly for H5N1 bird flu response.
The US Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating more than 450 employees at the US Centers for Disease Control ...
Frederick County Battalion Chief Josh Laird, 46, fell through the floor of a 5,375-square-foot house that had no sprinklers.
The department also claimed no CDC employees had been terminated on Friday and only a "required notice was sent to NIOSH employees, following the agreed-upon standard process with the union." ...
The NIOSH researchers collected the tissue samples as part of experiments to determine how Americans may be impacted by chemicals and other substances they are exposed to at their jobs.
The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable disease.
Unions and occupational safety providers say the federal agency with statutory responsibility to protect workers’ health and ...
Impact on the CDC's measles response also goes beyond NIOSH. CBS News previously reported that multiple agency staff assigned to the effort had been let go.
CDC to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response.
CDC's original team included support from the agency's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, for helping health care facilities find ways to stop the spread of the highly ...
NIOSH is part of the CDC, and its staff checks for safety hazards such as chemicals and vehicle hazards, research aimed at saving lives.
Among the layoffs to NIOSH's World Trade Center Health Program were nurses and scientists, two CDC officials said. Staff dealing with enrollment, member services and other administrative duties ...