1951: Industrial Health And Safety

Archives consist of articles that originally appeared in Collier's Year Book (for events of 1997 and earlier) or as monthly updates in Encarta Yearbook (for events of 1998 and later). Because they were published shortly after events occurred, they reflect the information available at that time. Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.

Recent technological advances in industry created new and more difficult problems of industrial health and safety. Although the forty-first person affected by radium poisoning from painting luminous dials on watch faces in 1916 did not die until 1951, industrial medicine was faced with new and... ...