Centers For Disease Control And Prevention history

On July 1, 1910, the United States Department of the Interior established the United States Bureau of Mines (USBM). The USBM worked to address the high fatality rate of mineworkers.

The United States reported the first flu symptoms in March 1918.

In 1919, Doctor Hamilton was appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School and became the first female faculty member at Harvard University.

Several months later, on January 15, 1920, this federal body certified the first respirator.

It was not until 1939 that a Medical Officer for the United States Navy recognized the need for crew to wear respirators when cutting and wetting amosite and other asbestos containing insulation.

The B Reader Program is established to provide qualified readers to meet the 1949 International Labour Office (ILO) standard for noting from X-rays some of the abnormal features that can be caused by inhaling dusts by inhaling dusts.

Linda Rosenstock was born in New York City In 1950.

Revisions to Schedule 21 expanded in 1955 under 30 CFR 14 to include the approval respirators with single use filters and reusable filters.

Millar began working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1961.

Further, Schedule 21B in 1965 expanded.

March 10, 1970, the first Health Hazard Evaluation is conducted at the Sager Glove Corporation in Murray, Kentucky, where researchers study asbestos exposures.

In September of 1974, the first employees of NIOSH were assigned to space in the facility.

Since taking over the head spot in 1975 from Doctor Marcus M. Key, Finklea had tried to change the Institute’s direction, taking a more aggressive approach than Key had.

After receiving an A.B. in psychology from Brandeis University, Doctor Rosenstock earned her M.D. and M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University in 1977.

He resigned abruptly in March, 1978, which left Millar as NIOSH’s acting director.

Millar held the post, sorting out conflicts within the Institute, until Anthony Robbins was appointed director 1979.

Rosenstock began post-graduate training at the University of Washington, completing her residency in 1980.

Following Robbins’s appointment, Millar was hired as the director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). He served in that capacity until Robbins resigned in 1981.

In December 1982, the United States Public Health Service purchased the facility for three and one-half million dollars.

First meeting of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors (BSe) 1985 On the 15th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) issued a report concluding that the Act had led to the reduction of exposures to vinyl chloride, cotton dust, and lead

[The ten leading work-related diseases and injuries proposed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)].[J UOEH. 1986] Yamada S. J UOEH. 1986 Dec 1; 8(4):457-69.

In 1990, NIOSH awarded grants to establish its first Centers for Agricultural Health and Safety, which now number 11 centers across the United States.

NIOSH issued a Current Intelligence Bulletin in 1991 on secondhand smoke in the workplace, which had become a major indoor air quality issue.

Millar retired from NIOSH and the US Public Health Service with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1993, turning his directorship over to Linda Rosen stock.

In 1994 Doctor Rosenstock was named director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Washington, D.C. She led a staff of 1,500 at the only federal agency with a mandate to undertake research and prevention activities in occupational safety and health.

The 104th Congress attempted to dismantle NIOSH in 1995, though it was ultimately unsuccessful.

Responding to a surge in violence against workers, in 1996, NIOSH issued findings and recommendations for preventing workplace homicides and assaults.

In 1997, NIOSH research identified a new lung disease in nylon flocking industry workers.6 That same year, authority for conducting mine safety research was transferred to NIOSH after the US Bureau of Mines was closed.

Additionally, surgical masks are not respirators and therefore, are not NIOSH-certified and do not satisfy OSHA requirements for respiratory protection”(1999).

HHS designates the role of compensation analysis and support to NIOSH in response to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.

On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, Shanksville, PA, and Washington D.C. led to first responders in these cities, as well as nationally, to jump into action.

The results indicated that many firefighters did not use adequate respiratory protection during the first week of the rescue/recovery operation (MMWR, 2002).

Also in 2004, NIOSH began what is now called the Total Worker Health Program, championing policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury- and illness-prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.

In 2006, NIOSH commercialized two NIOSH-designed field methods to help first responders, public health officials, and remediation workers quickly detect the presence of methamphetamine on various environmental surfaces.

In 2007, NIOSH took the first step in engaging an online community by launching the NIOSH Science Blog.

First Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance Report published (in 2008 it became an online surveillance system).

The results of the study showed that all seven first responders developed some form of lung disease after their exposure to the dust at Ground Zero (Wu, et al., 2010). Research suggests the rate of respiratory illness was so high due to a lack in use of respiratory protection.

The standard covers the use of respirators to protect persons against the inhalation of harmful air contaminants and against oxygen-deficient atmospheres in the workplace” (ANZ88.2-2015, 1.1).

In 2016, NIOSH published revised criteria for a standard on occupational exposure to heat and hot environments.

Gibbs also created a respirator specifically for aviators (Spelce, et al., 2017).

Further, the CDC released guidelines for the disposal, cleaning, and disinfection based on the type of respirator worn by a healthcare worker when treating an Ebola patient. (Frequently Asked Questions, Ebola, 2018).