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EDITOR’S NOTE
Believe it or not, Occupational Health & Safety is 90 years old. As a celebration of this milestone, I thought it only necessary to look back on the formation of the publication as well as explain how OH&S plans to use
this year to review some of the most important health and safety topics throughout the last 90 years.
The need for information on worker health and safety
is still as essential
to businesses and organizations around the country in 2022 as it was in 1932.
In 1932, the first issue of OH&S was born, but it wasn’t
named OH&S just yet. Back then, before the OSH Act
and the formation of the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, the publication was titled Industrial Medicine.
The title was a fitting description of what then editors Arthur
David Cloud and Dr. Clarence Olds Sappington wanted
the magazine to educate readers on: the health and safety of workers from a physician’s perspective.
Cloud, a Chicago area attorney who was passionate about workers’ rights, had recently created a publication called Industrial Relations which tackled topics like pension systems, bonuses, welfare policies and profit-sharing plans. Later, when Cloud met Sappington, the 1932 director of the National Safety Council’s Division of Industrial Health, they agreed together that the health and safety of workers should have its own specialized publication to give workers a more advanced understanding of their own health.
Ninety years later, the mission of Industrial Medicine, renamed in 1974 to Industrial Medicine and Surgery later changed to International Journal of Occupational Health & Safety and finally streamlined in 1976 to Occupational Health & Safety, has never changed. Throughout some of the largest milestones in history advocating for the safety and health of workers, OH&S has diligently reported on and impacted the education of safety professionals for decades.
It probably never occurred to Cloud or Sappington that the magazine would stretch on for nearly 100 years, but the need for information on worker health and safety is still as essential to businesses and organizations around the country in 2022 as it was in 1932. To that end, OH&S will be dedicating one article in each issue of 2022 to review the history of some of the most important topics that are still relevant to worker safety today.
In this issue, it is only fitting that we take a look the long road that lead to the safety and health policies, procedures, rules and regulations that make work safe today. Find that article on page 36.
SYDNY SHEPARD
sshepard@1105media.com
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