Rick Neitzel

A construction worker wearing a hard hat.

Federal budget cuts and worker safety

Michigan Public Health professor and researcher Rick Neitzel warns that federal cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which has lost two-thirds of its staff, will lead to more preventable workplace injuries and deaths across industries from mining to healthcare.

Two people sitting on a couch watching television.

Are Super Bowl cheers bad for your ears?

The Super Bowl is America's most-watched broadcast and also, it seems, the nation's loudest single event—a distinction that means the cheers, jeers, parties, bars and big screens may be as rough on the eardrums as a defensive end is on a quarterback.

Chenxi Sun, MPH ’20, prepares to participate in the 40-hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, or HAZWOPER, training program in the winter of 2020.

COHSE receives $9 million NIOSH grant to fund education and training

The Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering has received a five-year $9 million grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to continue its pivotal role in training the future generation of occupational health professionals.