Because of the layoffs at NIOSH, multiple lifesaving programs have been shut down even though they’re required by law.
That includes the National Firefighter Cancer Registry, the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, the Health Hazard Evaluation Program, the Respirator Approval Program, and the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program.
As someone who used to work fire I’m livid
FF’s have a significantly higher cancer rate, as someone who used to do that work. Literally lives have been saved by these programs, including increased awareness of diet importance and cardiac risk for working firefighters etc.
Pure evil to cancel this.
It sounds like you have knowledge of what the programs offer.
Are you saying that fire fighters won’t have awareness of the diet importance and their cardiac risk if the program stops?
Bad faith troll and low effort to boot
Unless you’re saying it should be up to them to find studies and research privately you ghoul
I’m saying that they still have the results of the studies.
They know where the cancer risks are and they know how to better take care of themselves.
It’s a case of “what have you done for me lately?” with these departments.
Do you think firefighters use the same methods and equipment as ten years ago? And fight fires in buildings made of the same materials, containing the same materials, built to the same standards?
Firefighters don’t need some researchers in DC to tell them how to adapt their methods or develop new equipment.
If the stuff that they use doesn’t meet their standards, they move onto a company that will sell them equipment that meets their standards.
The fed isn’t needed for that
May 13, 2025 14:58Mandatory minimum requirements for gear safety also save lives and prevent a sea of sub-par equipment where everyone is racing to make it cheaper
Don’t think that because you grew up with this info that it came from nothing.
When I started fire, studies on such things gave hard numbers unions could point to, and fight for change over.
Don’t take the progress that’s been made on the backs of the dead for granted.
You look foolish here
