Abstract
FROM 1980 TO 1984, the Washington, DC—based Workers' Institute for Safety and Health (a private nonprofit educational and technical resource center for labor unions), with funds from the National Cancer Institute, initiated three demonstration projects to assess means to identify, notify, screen, and educate workers exposed to various toxic substances (<i>J Occup Med</i>1986;28:719-727). Each project, which continues to monitor workers and collect data, elicited the cooperation and participation of community-based physicians. At a New York Academy of Sciences meeting on Occupational Health in the 1990s, one project investigator, Knut Ringen, DPH, discussed the projects in light of new national efforts to notify workers at risk, including national notification legislation recently defeated in the Senate, and an ongoing National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) program to notify members of its cohort studies of occupational disease risks. The Augusta, Ga, project identified 1385 workers at risk for bladder cancer
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