American workers deserve better than to lose their safety watchdogs

American workers deserve better than to lose their safety watchdogs

The decision to eliminate the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health must be reversed if the United States is serious about protecting its workforce while competing globally.

Some WV NIOSH workers return temporarily amid cuts impacting coal miner health

At least some workers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are getting back to work this week after federal cuts in early April took them off the job, according to a statement released Tuesday by Sen. Shelley…

Some NIOSH workers return temporarily amid cuts impacting coal miner health screenings in WV

Some employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, pictured here on Jan. 28, 2012 in Morgantown, W.Va., will return temporarily, according to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. (Getty Images) At least some workers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are getting back to work this week after federal cuts in early April took them off the job, according to a statement released Tuesday by Sen. Shelley Moore C…

Some NIOSH personnel returning temporarily - Dominion Post

MORGANTOWN — A number of furloughed scientists and researchers from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are set to trod some familiar turf this morning.  […] The post Some NIOSH personnel returning temporarily appeared first on Dominion Post.

U.S. Sen. Capito reports progress on reversing NIOSH layoffs

CHARLESTON – After writing a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Tuesday that progress has been made in temporarily restoring some employees of the Morgantown NIOSH…

Some NIOSH functions 'slated to resume,' Sen. Capito says

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said Tuesday that some of the 200 Morgantown National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) employees who were terminated earlier this month could return to work this week. In a statement, Capito said that after having conversations with people in Morgantown and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she is "encouraged that some NIOSH functions for co…