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{"title":"25 Years Down the Road: 9/11 Mental Health Reflections on the World Trade Center Cleanup.","authors":"Joseph Chip Hughes, Earl Dotter","doi":"10.1177/10482911261481790","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261481790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on direct experience at Ground Zero as part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program (NIEHS WTP) initial assessment team, this essay argues that the psychological injuries sustained by World Trade Center (WTC) cleanup workers were occupational exposures-parallel in origin, severity, and duration to the physical health damage now formally recognized under the WTC Health Program and the Zadroga Act. Both categories of harm developed simultaneously, were documented simultaneously, and were fought for simultaneously. Both continue today.September 11th was a sacred historical moment that produced catastrophic trauma and extraordinary human solidarity in equal measure. Honoring that solidarity requires unflinching honesty about what it cost the people who answered the call-in their lungs, their minds, and the years that followed.The essay traces the evolution of occupational safety practice from a field that had no framework for psychological hazards to one slowly building the tools to address them-through the opioid crisis, through COVID-19, and through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program's development of trauma-informed disaster response curricula, peer support infrastructure, and all-hazards mental health training designed to protect both responders and the communities they serve.Central arguments include psychological hazards require systematic approaches equal in rigor to physical hazard controls; stoicism culture functions as an organizational toxin; compassion fatigue and moral injury are clinical realities, not character failings; and early intervention-including peer support, structured debriefing, and embedded mental health professionals-saves lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"260-274"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Organizational Climate Toward Sexual Minority Workers on Burnout: The Mediating Role of Quality of Work Life.","authors":"Marco Minhós, Vítor Costa, Samuel Monteiro","doi":"10.1177/10482911261475988","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261475988","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to describe and analyze the relationships between the organizational climate towards sexual minority workers, the quality of work life (QoWL), and burnout in a sample of 256 Portuguese and Brazilian workers. The mediating role of QoWL in the relationship between climate and burnout was analyzed, and the variables under study were compared considering participants' sexual orientation. Our findings showed group differences in burnout and in specific QoWL dimensions (general well-being and working conditions), but not in overall QoWL or perceived climate according to sexual orientation. An inclusive climate toward sexual minority workers had a negative impact, reducing burnout, and a positive impact on QoWL. QoWL had a negative impact on burnout and mediated the relationship between climate and burnout. We drew implications for research, practice, and policies from the current findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"310-322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13672955/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation and Validation of the Job Factor Questionnaire (JFQ) and Quick Exposure Check (QEC) into Malay Language for Small and Medium Food Manufacturing Industries (SME).","authors":"Melor Amran, Dayana Hazwani Mohd Suadi Nata, Ismarulyusda Ishak, Putri Anis Syahira Mohamad Jamil","doi":"10.1177/10482911261478335","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261478335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reliable assessment of ergonomic and job-related risk factors requires tools that are linguistically, culturally, and contextually appropriate. This study translated, culturally adapted, and preliminarily evaluated Malay versions of the Job Factor Questionnaire (JFQ) and Quick Exposure Check (QEC) among workers in Malaysian food manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises. The process included forward and backward translation, expert review, face validation, pilot testing, and psychometric evaluation. The instruments were administered to 151 employees from participating enterprises. Item-level content validity indices were at least 0.80, internal consistency was acceptable (Cronbach's alpha = 0.835), and test-retest reliability showed good agreement for the JFQ (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.861) and QEC (ICC = 0.800). In the recruited sample, production workers had higher observed JFQ and QEC scores than office workers, consistent with anticipated exposure differences. These findings provide preliminary support for the reliability and utility of the Malay JFQ and QEC in food manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"323-329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148761787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Air Sampling at the World Trade Center Site by the Operating Engineers National Hazmat Program September 27, 2001 Update.","authors":"Bruce Lippy","doi":"10.1177/10482911261480814","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261480814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Heavy Equipment Operators of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) played a critical role in the clean-up of the World Trade Center terrorist attack site. The amount of debris on the site was enormous but was significantly reduced by the round-the-clock efforts of the Operating Engineers and other dedicated craft workers on site. The amount of choking dust released on the site lessened as the cleanup progressed but the fires continue to release smoke through December 2001, sometimes more heavily than during the previous week. Operating Engineers continually moved their equipment, primarily grapplers, further onto the large debris pile and, therefore, experienced longer and more intense exposures to the smoke. The IUOE National Hazmat Program had a team of Industrial Hygienists collecting daily air samples of operator exposures beginning on Wednesday, September 19. The team collected over 50 samples of potential contaminants, including airborne asbestos, lead, total dust, organic vapors, and acid gases. The IUOE National Hazmat Program's technical office in Morgantown, West Virginia compiled the data every day and then disseminated it over the Internet to the New York City Department of Health, the EPA, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The team regularly reviewed the data collected by federal and state organizations. The following represents reporting from Ground Zero on September 27, 2001.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"367-369"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Worker Education and Training Program (WETP) Response to the World Trade Center (WTC) Disaster: Initial WETP Grantee Response and Preliminary Assessment of Training Needs.","authors":"Donald Elisburg, John Moran","doi":"10.1177/10482911261483748","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261483748","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Executive Summary:The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent magnitude of the destruction and loss of life at the World Trade Center Complex (WTC) created an emergency response, rescue, and recovery effort of enormous proportions.New York City, State, and many Federal disaster response organizations, in addition to thousands of volunteers and other support organizations, quickly responded, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)-Worker Education and Training Program (WETP). Several of the WETP grantees were among those support organizations responding for the purpose of providing quick-response training to workers, many from organizations with which the grantees are affiliated. In order to provide a perspective at the WETP Administrator level, a short-term technical assistance and coordination task order was executed with the authors, one of whom was dispatched to the WTC disaster site over the period from September 22 through September 27, 2001.The purpose of the short-term task order was four fold: (1) assist in coordination of NIEHS-WETP grantee activities at the WTC Site, (2) assess the current safety and health status of response personnel working at the WTC Site, (3) evaluate the current Site safety and health plans or programs and related aspects such as exposure monitoring with respect to worker protections, and (4) perform a preliminary training needs assessment specific to the WTC Site activities.With respect to the coordination task, both the International Association of Fire Fighters and the Operating Engineers National HAZMAT Program had launched an immediate and comprehensive response. As events unfolded, the authors and several other grantee organizations mobilized response resources, including coordination with the New York City Building and Construction Trades Council and the Construction Employers Association, Bechtel Corporation, the contractor responsible for developing the over-all WTC Disaster Site Safety and Health Plan, and other parties with respect to the training programs that could be promptly provided by the grantee organizations.Assessment of the current safety and health status at the Site was based upon on-site observations and analysis of the WTC Disaster Site Worker Injury and Illness Surveillance Update Reports issued by the City Health Department. Evaluation of the current Site safety and health plans and programs and related aspects was not possible, as none were apparently applicable to the construction workforce. The training needs assessment task, therefore, was conducted solely on the basis of safety and health status observations and analysis of the injury and illness surveillance reports. Training recommendations, in broad terms, are provided in this report. Training needs assessments keyed to specific construction crafts or trades, an important dimension to aid in better targeting of training response and capacity assessments by ","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"354-366"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148882044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Avoiding the Deregulatory Trap: It's not About Fewer Rules. It's About Rigging the System for the Wealthy and Powerful.","authors":"Sam Berger","doi":"10.1177/10482911261482001","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261482001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Trump administration has adopted \"deregulation\" as a public frame for its regulatory agenda. But this label is a myth intended to distract from the actual goal: rigging markets to benefit powerful economic actors even at the expense of everyone else. Rather than an ideological question about how many rules should be in place in a given market, the policy debate is actually about who should hold the power in a market. Supporters of sensible safeguards should stop using the deregulation frame and instead analyze efforts to eliminate safeguards in terms of what they reveal about the administration's goals, meaning who benefits, how, and who is harmed in the process.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"370-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149012526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Firefighter Turnout Gear and Peri-Governmental Influences.","authors":"Kira Mok, Gabriel Wasserman, Phil Brown, Alissa Cordner","doi":"10.1177/10482911261482003","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261482003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do non-governmental standards matter for occupational and environmental health and safety? Internationally recognized standards specify requirements for structural firefighter personal protective equipment (PPE), but concerns have emerged about hazardous chemicals and firefighters' potential exposures. In this paper, we draw on the case of the National Fire Protection Association's standards for firefighter PPE to develop the concept of <i>peri-governance</i>, work done by non-governmental actors or organizations that exerts governance force through various mechanisms, including government entities. We conducted qualitative interviews with firefighters, industry representatives, activists, and other experts to identify firefighter and union concerns related to the development of PPE standards, and advocacy related to those concerns. We find that peri-governmental standards can exert essentially binding influence over sectors of society through four mechanisms: formal regulatory and legal requirements, fear of legal liability, insurance requirements, and universal uptake by relevant users. Peri-governance raises specific concerns about transparency, fairness, and public-private interactions, making the concept useful in examining other standards and governance more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"285-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 is an Occupational Disease for Teachers: How to Support the Teacher Workforce.","authors":"Alison K Cohen, Lora Bartlett","doi":"10.1177/10482911261481567","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261481567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analyzing a growing body of epidemiological research that considers coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as an occupational disease situates teaching (eg, pre-kindergarten, elementary, secondary) among the more vulnerable occupations. Teachers have experienced a higher risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, death, and Long COVID than people from many other occupations. More research attending to occupational patterns and risk mitigation is needed. Taking an occupational epidemiology approach for teachers can inform a wide array of policy solutions, including school environment improvements that can support infection control, like air cleaning and ventilation, as well as supporting teachers experiencing disproportionate burdens of COVID-19, including those living with Long COVID.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"281-284"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13672937/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sons of Detroit, A Film Directed by Jeremy Xido, 2026.","authors":"Judith Daltuva","doi":"10.1177/10482911261469592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10482911261469592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":"36 3","pages":"375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leslie Nickels: Worker Educator, Activist, and Social Justice Warrior.","authors":"Eric Persaud, Sarah Kukich, Celeste Monforton","doi":"10.1177/10482911261474580","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10482911261474580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dr. Leslie Anne Nickels was a leader in occupational health and safety who championed innovative training and education programs to improve worker health and safety locally, nationally, and across the world. The purpose of this article is to record her accomplishments in the peer-reviewed literature, as she herself did not publish much because of her focus on translating research into training and education, rather than on research itself. The authors conducted extensive interviews with members of Nickels' family, friends, and colleagues. Existing articles, videos, recordings, papers, and notes were reviewed. The authors summarized the findings to provide the following biographical tribute of Dr. Leslie Nickels.</p>","PeriodicalId":45586,"journal":{"name":"New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"275-280"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148608506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}