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M10.5 Blog about an occupational safety and health organization

CHOOSE ONE of the following organizations/agencies: OSHA, CAL/OSHA, NIOSH, ILO, WHO, AFL-CIO
Go to their website.
Each of these occupational safety and health or labor organizations support a range of occupational health and safety programs. Select a health and safety program sponsored by one of these organizations, read about it.
Provide a short summary on your BLOG and how it might relate to your health and safety.

I chose the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as the agency to explore for this blog post. I went to their website (link: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/index.htm) and looked at all the different health and safety programs that they sponsor. The program I chose to read about in more depth is one of the programs in the NIOSH Research Program Portfolio. The program I read about the NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program. The NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program "seeks to promote health equity in disease incidence, injury, mental illness, and morbidity and mortality that are closely linked with social, economic, and/ or environmental disadvantage," according to the NIOSH website. The NIOSH Occupational Health Equity Program seeks to improve occupational health and safety in specific, higher-risk populations in industry, labor, trade associations, professional organizations, and academia. The program focuses on decreasing injury and illness in industries where priority populations frequently work and decreasing fatal occupational injuries and illnesses in priority populations. I found this program very interesting because I did not think that NIOSH would have any function in health equity, but upon reading about the program I found it to be a very important initiative. NIOSH improves surveillance to track health inequities in target populations and they have addressed issues that would affect people like me such as identifying barriers to purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) sized for women. I found this to be a very interesting important program that I am very grateful for and glad to have learned about!

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