Boston tries to help immigrants facing health hazards on the job - International Herald Tribune Quote:
Around the United States, immigrants from developing nations have taken jobs that expose them to wheezing lungs, foggy brains and sore limbs. Three years ago, the health authorities in Boston embarked on a novel campaign to protect the health of workers in auto-repair garages, which attract many immigrants.
Now, the Boston Public Health Commission is expanding its Safe Shops initiative to the hundreds of nail salons that dot the city, businesses overwhelmingly staffed by women from Southeast Asia. They are shops where the perfume of nail polish and other chemical-laden beauty products hangs heavy in the air.
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and I always thought the USA had good health and safety legislation, it appears you have none
Nov 20, 2007, 01:59 pm
