NIOSH Chief John Howard Says Agency Ramping Up Collaboration With OSHA

NIOSH chief John Howard says the research agency is ramping up its collaborative efforts with OSHA, partly by helping to provide safety and heath information to employers. Howard tells Inside OSHA Online in an exclusive interview that the partnership has advanced through such efforts as co-branded documents and hazard alerts, beginning with a joint document on nail gun safety. Recently the two agencies worked together on issuing a hazard alert on silica exposures in hydraulic fracturing, based on NIOSH research into exposure levels (see related story). Interested parties have consistently expr