Workplace Injury and Disease 1947 USA

Other workplace and environmental health and safety events in the years after WWII, include:
1945 -- Pioneering occupational medicine doctor Alice Hamilton retired
1947 -- the first industrial hygiene courses offered at University of Washington School of Medicine.
1947 -- Uranium mining began in the Navajo Nation in the southwestern USA.
1947 - April 16, the French freighter S.S. Grandcamp exploded in Galveston Bay, Texas City, Texas. This explosion killed 512 people
1948 -- Passage of India's Factories Act, to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour and providing for the health, safety, welfare and other aspects of labours in factories
This was clipped from the 1947 film, Wastage of Human Resources, a film pointing to the building of a better world out of the devastation of World War II, available at the Internet Archives

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