Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff

Almost all the workers are around National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health On Friday, multiple officials and stone workers told CBS News that programs from new security equipment to fireworks health.

Most of the work on Neosh for the control and resistance of the disease was already postponed after the first round of the agency ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on April 7.

New requests have already stopped being received for investigating firearms and at work in the workplace health. Plan a CDC Assist in Texas Schools The spread of ham infection due to the trim was also canceled.

On Friday night, NIOSH employees received the notification of the deepest night included some staff for the World Trade Center Health Program, Mainer Protection and Firefighter Health Program. The workers were asked to return to work in two more months after the workers appealed to the Congress members for these programs.

On Friday, the trimless notices received by the workers were almost the same as those received in the Kennedy Cuts’ initial round, which said their duties “have been identified as unnecessary or virtually identical to the responsibilities performed by the agency.”

An organizational chart obtained by CBS News, NIOSH staff shows the departments eliminated by a group, trimmed by a group.

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The main difference with Friday’s trim notice was the date they were in effect: instead of June 2, workers are being kept on vacation until the government separation from the service from July 2.

The pruning has also stopped working in the agency’s national protective technology laboratory. This NIOSH section was a government agency working with the N95 mask and the breathing devices used by the emergency staff -the examinations -audit protection equipment.

A chief official said the laboratory breathing approval program was in the middle of processing about 100 applications for personal protective equipment.

The suspended work includes changes needed to meet the new standard issued by the National Fire Protection Association for this year. No equipment is currently certified to meet those values, or has not been able to repay the application fee given by the agency manufacturers.

Officials said the spot and warning about fake personal protective equipment were also closed, officials said.

“Millions of workers across various sectors, including healthcare, construction, and emergency services, depend on the nosh -in breathing. Without this approval, their protection has been compromised, causing controversial illness, injury, and even death,” staff wrote in a letter shared with CBS News.

It is not clear what the agency’s work will happen now is that most of its teams have been eliminated. HHS did not immediately respond to any request for comment.

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