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(Descriptions in quotes from the respective websites)

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov
"The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment.  Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people..."

 
ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Training

http://www.hsed.icwuc.org/  
"The ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Education is a multi-union safety training program that offers a wide range of courses.  Operated by the International Chemical Workers Union Council, the Center was founded in 1987 in cooperation with the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) through a grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Services (NIEHS). The Center Consortium also included the University of Cincinnati and the Greater Cincinnati Occupational Health Center..."

International Chemical Workers Union Council
http://www.icwuc.org/
"Founded in 1944, the International Chemical Workers Union is still one of the youngest unions in the House of Labor in the United States. ...The first national organizational drive for workers in the chemical industry began in April, 1940, when the AFL assigned one of its staff organizers, H. A. Bradley, the task of signing up the nation's chemical industry workers, with its initial job being to establish a workable Council of Chemical Worker Unions throughout the country..."

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/intro.htm
"Human health and human disease result from three interactive elements: environmental factors, individual susceptibility and age.  The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelated.  The NIEHS achieves its mission through multidisciplinary biomedical research programs, prevention and intervention efforts, and communication strategies that encompass training, education, technology transfer, and community outreach."

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov/icd/

Occupational Safety and Health Information (OSHA)
http://www.osha.gov/
"OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health..."

The Midwest Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training
http://www.uc.edu/mwc/index.htm
"The Midwest Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training was among the first groups funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to develop, present and evaluate model worker training programs to help employers comply with 29 CFR 1910.120..."

United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

 

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