National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 国立职业安全与健康研究所
As a participant in the study, we were asked our assessment of the proposal by NIOSH.
The unions' efforts in court foundered, but the NIOSH study in April prompted OSHA to promise the new regulation soon.
William O'Keefe, an official of the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group, called the NIOSH report "seriously flawed."
Roy Clason Jr., OSHA's director of policy, said the NIOSH report had just been received and was under review.
Officials of the CDC and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health learned from meeting with paramedics, police officers and other personnel to discuss the recommendations, said Phil Strine, an AIDS specialist with NIOSH in Atlanta.
The NIOSH study updated past health reviews of workers at several rubber industry plants between the late 1930s and early 1970s.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) testified in a department hearing that new rules should require that powered machinery be locked so that it cannot be turned on when maintenance or service work is being done.