Two major professional groups — the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the American Society of Safety Engineers — have weighed in with complaints about the planned reorganization of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that both organizations argue will damage the status of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The planned CDC reorganization would "cluster" NIOSH with the National Center for Environmental Health, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in a new Coordinating Center for Environmental Health, Injury Prevention, and Occupational Health.