Addressing more complex and abstract safety hazards like incivility, harassment and stress can be challenging, but the ...

Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

For more than half a century, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Department ...

The Department of Health and Human Services rejected a CBS report that alleged the bureaucracy recently slashed its workforce ...

“Based on conversations I’ve had with folks on the ground in Morgantown and at (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), I am encouraged that some NIOSH functions for coal miner ...

Created by the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act, NIOSH is the agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is responsible for conducting research and making ...

NIOSH, an agency within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducts research into workplace-related injuries and illnesses. In Morgantown, NIOSH conducts research on coal-related ...

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito urges HHS to reinstate laid-off NIOSH employees in Morgantown, citing coal miner health concerns.

Reuters interviews with more than a dozen people involved in medical programs serving the coal industry, and a review of internal documents from NIOSH, show that at least three such federal ...