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Alice Hamilton, MD, was "the first American physician to devote her life to the practice of industrial medicine." Born into a prominent family of Fort Wayne, Indiana, she graduated from medical school at the University of Michigan in 1893. She later moved into Jane Addams' Hull House, and there provided a well-baby clinic for residents of the settlement's neighborhood. Seeing the problems of poor working class families at close range, her compassion and professional interest were inexorably drawn to the many victims of work-related diseases and injuries. She pioneered occupational epidemiology and industrial hygiene in the United States beginning with investigations of lead poisoning among enamelers of bathtubs. Her findings were so scientifically persuasive, that they caused sweeping reforms, both voluntary and regulatory, to reduce occupational exposure to lead. In 1919, Dr. Hamilton was appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine at Harvard Medical School, becoming the first woman on the faculty of Harvard University. A statue of Alice Hamilton sits in Headwaters Park just off downtown of her hometown Fort Wayne, Indiana. ( www.hmdb.org ). For more on Dr. Hamilton's life and work, see the NIOSH website at www.cdc.gov . Her autobiography, Exploring The Dangerous Trades The Autobiography, published in 1943 is available for reading and downloading from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org .

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Working with vibrating handtools can cause vibration syndrome, a condition also known as vibration white finger and as Raynaud's phenomenon of occupational origin. Vibration syndrome has adverse circulatory and neural effects in the fingers. View an excellent primer on hand-arm vibration hazards and their control at: training.lni.wa.gov/training/presentations/HandArmVibrPrimer.ppt . This clip is from the 1990 NIOSH video, Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome.

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This is clipped from the 1989 film, Robot Reality, from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Robots are generally used to perform unsafe, hazardous, highly repetitive, and unpleasant tasks. They have many different functions such as material handling, assembly, welding, machine tool load and unload functions, painting, spraying, and so forth. Many robot accidents occur during non-routine operating conditions, such as programming, maintenance, testing, setup, or adjustment. During many of these operations the worker may temporarily be within the robot's working envelope where unintended operations could result in injuries. For current information on robot safety, link to www.osha.gov .

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This program covers the requirements under NIOSH Standards for quantitative and qualitative fit testing procedures. Meet requirements for training employees in proper fit testing procedures. SafetyInstruction.com automotive safety training series. www.safetyinstruction.com

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Construction workers may be exposed to hazardous dust containing silica when working in enclosed cabs during construction activities, including the remediation of contaminated sites. The main sources of dust in an enclosed cab are from airborne dust at the worksite that leaks into a cab that is poorly sealed and from the material tracked into the cab by the operator. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that equipment operator exposure could be reduced by retrofitting air pressurization and filtration systems on existing cabs, using sweeping compounds on soiled floors, and implementing a dust control program. The two most important factors to achieve low dust concentrations in enclosed cabs were the use of an efficient air filtration system and an effectively sealed (tight) cab for positive inside cab pressurization. For more information, link to the NIOSH website www.cdc.gov . This is clipped from the 7 minute 2002 NIOSH video, Reducing Dust Inside Enclosed Cabs. The entire video is available at the Internet Archives.

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