Occupational Health

Report stresses worker protection for homeland security

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 22nd, 2002

The U.S. government must help train emergency personnel and provide updated safety guidelines so the workers are better protected against hazards such as they faced at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to a public health workshop report released August 23, 2002, by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a component of the federal National Institutes of Health.

The report, Learning from Disasters: Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness Through Worker Training, summarized the findings of an NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program technical workshop that brought together national experts involved in the recent...

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