On ISHN’s 50th anniversary we salute 30 individuals who have left historic markers on the field.
Possibly the most aggressive OSHA chief, Bingham served in the 1970s during the Carter administration. She said OSHA would launch an “all-out effort to combat occupational illness and disease.” An occupational health scientist who worked for NIOSH in the early ’70s, she issued standards on lead, cotton dust and benzene, proposed a generic cancer policy, and battled Republican efforts to limit the agency’s enforcement power.