Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on OSHA delays

Full Committee Hearing – Time Takes Its Toll: Delays in OSHA’s Standard-Setting Process and the Impact on Worker Safety

Here’s the video of the hearing

Here’s the testimony of Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH , Clinical Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health University of WA School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Retired Director of State OSHA Program at Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Seattle, WA

“OSHA doesn’t kill jobs — it keeps jobs from killing people.” — Sen. Harkin

Here’s the 1938 video, Stop Silicosis, made by the Department of Labor under Secretary Frances Perkins.

Radium City — a 1987 documentary about the Illinois Radium Girls

Thanks to Mary B. in Dangerous Work for sharing this documentary about the Radium Girls in the Ottawa, IL Westclox plant. There are many interviews with radium workers, who gone now. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLS6NCZPiSY&feature=youtu.be

Here’s a New York Times review:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/movies/film-festival-a-view-of-the-radium-dial-horror.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm