Historically, a weak occupational health movement has benefited from "piggybacking" on stronger political movements. The case of silica control is used to illustrate this idea. In the 1930s and 40s, public health initiatives to control tuberculosis greatly reduced silica exposures of workers in the Vermont granite industry. Current efforts to regulate silica environmentally, under the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, are discussed.
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Keywords: Occupational Exposure,
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