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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on health and safety. And boy, I'll tell you, after reading our background research, there are a lot of safety issues that, you know, frankly, I had forgotten about. But we'll dive into them today with our crew. We have a wonderful background crew that helps us with all of our shows, Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins,
Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, and Sheridan Nygaard all do wonderful research. They do our recordings as well and also get those shows out to you, the listening audience. So thank you to you guys. It's really a pleasure working with you. In addition, Dr. Barry Baines is with us today. He's our medical advisor that provides some medical insight and perspective.
So thanks, Barry, for being on the show today. And of course, there's Clarence. Clarence Jones and I co-host the show together. And we're finding that a lot of the shows are very, very interesting. And we are learning a lot together. So Clarence, as always, thank you. Human Partnerships. is our sponsor for these shows. Great community health organization.
Check them out at humanpartnership.org and check us out, Health Chatter out at healthchatterpodcast.com. All the research, And all the questions that you might have or reviews are all on our website. And you can also read up about all of us who do the show. So thanks again to everybody. So health and safety.
You know, I read through our background research here, and one of the key things around health and safety centers around OSHA, O-S-H-A-A, which stands for the Occupational Safety Health Administration, which, frankly... didn't start that long ago. It was like in 1970 that it really started. And it was really focused on safety in the workplace.
And if you just kind of broaden your perspective about work in general and think about where all the people in the United States work, all these different different places, there are safety concerns that, that need to be addressed and hopefully, um, in a way that can prevent harm. And so for instance, in, um, historically, you know, we were dealing with mines and mind, mind safety, M I N E safety.
There was, um, you know, things around equipment. There was also farming where we had a lot of farming accidents and alike. And as we get more sophisticated with our technology, there are aspects of work that we really have to address from a safety perspective. So thoughts on that, Barry?
Well, basically that's one of the areas of health and safety where there is a structure in place. There are departments within governmental perspectives that really address those kinds of things. And certainly things like mine, when I kind of think of the biggies, certainly mine safety, construction, Safety is another one.
And when you look at where a lot of the accidents and mortality comes from, it's in these, you know, fairly dangerous occupations. And, you know, from a health and safety perspective, though, you do have government regulation, you have government intervention, and that Obviously, you can't get away from the political aspects of that, which I'm not going to delve into.
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