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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It would be funny if someone at OSHA decided KN95s were acceptable and 3M and co's masks became unprofitable overnight, with everyone importing Chinese masks.
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I mean 3m Masks will soon be either unprofitable or need a new rating or an internal one, because no new mask can be rated any more, so when they need to be retested, or a new moddel comes out, they cannot and so they cannot stamp n95 on it any more
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