Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
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Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
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Another reason to keep buying Chinese KN95 masks I guess. Not that that's the main thing NIOSH does.
They're doing all this "downsizing" maybe in preparation for some war against China or the Global South or something, but they're gutting all this infrastructure they'll probably want and slighting a bunch of people they'll want to have on their side. Imagine pissing off all your administrators.
Although most people are clueless enough that they'll just blame this on Trump and go back to sieg-heiling the US once he's out of office.
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Masks where one of the first things to go, they where let go completly by febuary. What really sucks for this is that due mostly in part to the US will chose the regulations it controls both MSHA and OSHA requrie NIOSH apporoved masks and do not accept equivelents. so no new masks can enter circulation
Also for what its worth what I read of the KN95 standard (the english translation) it is better than the N95 mask, and as someone who wears a KN95 every day unless required to wear an N95 for respretory protection (see regulation wierdness) the focus on sightlines the KN95 mask has that n95 does not is amazing
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Just for anyone wondering NIOSH while under HHS and not the department of labor does most of the research work for safety in the US and anything that needs to be certified either goes through ANSI or NIOSH, so this has effectivly killed safety protections in the United States. - Source, About to graduate with a masters in Safety Engineering in Yankeeland… because timing is great, I also have signed up for a Ph.D in the same topic, also in Yankee land...
Also most safety resources in the US are either NIOSH or funded by NIOSH ... so you know ... now we wont get that.
once agian Worker safety was killed off by this, in the US
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Thank you for your service 🫡
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You are more than welcome, if you ever have a safety related question feel free to DM
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Super cool
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