OK International

Occupational Knowledge International is a nonprofit organization (NGO) working internationally to build capacity to protect public health and the environment.

[OK International @occupknowledge]

@Frank_Pega We also published another study reporting on respirable silica among informal miners ASGM in #Nigeria but just after your cutoff

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Very important summary but unfortunately they missed our important study of silica exposures among informal stone crushing workers in #india at https://t.co/9NJ9I33kUE

[Sheiphali Gandhi @shef_gandhi]

I gave an interview for NPR on our new article on silicosis due to engineered stone among immigrant workers in California. https://t.co/LFBMXhwnZd

[OK International @occupknowledge]

More cases of silicosis identified in California among counter top workers cutting artificial quartz -- 27% misdiagnosed with #tuberculosis as is common in many LMICs https://t.co/h9tkdaecgE

[Closing the Water Gap @ctwatergap]

Exporting US Lead Pipes and Solutions to this Environmental Justice Problem
Webinar tomorrow: Link to register: https://t.co/zaAAGOevJG
@CaitSchroering
@casacem
@occupknowledge
@charlotbrody
@CLASPITT
@PittMCSI

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Why is lead poisoning a huge problem in #India? Because there are 672 "authorized" small lead battery recyclers for a battery market that is approximately the same size as the U.S. which has 10 large lead smelters...small recycling plants can't afford environmental controls

[OK International @occupknowledge]

But lead paint is not banned as it continues to be used outside of homes

[TIME @TIME]

The Biden administration on Wednesday moved to reduce children’s exposure to lead, proposing stricter limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities https://t.co/q7xkbInDFe

[OK International @occupknowledge]

But @EPA must tell grantees not to allow ised lead pipe to be exported to polluting recyclers in low income countries #EnvironmentalJustice

[Closing the Water Gap @ctwatergap]

👇Link to register: https://t.co/zaAAGOevJG
@CaitSchroering @casacem @occupknowledge @charlotbrody @CLASPITT @PittMCSI

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Unfortunately what this article does not mention is that current efforts to replace lead pipes are sometimes leaving pipes in the ground that may also contribute to soil and water contamination

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

AT&T, Verizon and other telecom giants have left behind a sprawling network of cables covered in toxic lead that stretches across the U.S., under the water, in the soil and on poles overhead, a WSJ investigation found https://t.co/UvX1ugNfWa

[CREPD @kuepouo]

#LeadPaint remains an issue in Cameroon Cameroon despite the 2017 landmark regulation banning all #Paint with more than #90ppm lead.
We are testing to inform full enforcement
@ChemandWaste
@IPEN_AF
@ToxicsFree
@UNEP

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Another example of @ASTM works against public health to prolong use of lead fuel for airplanes in the interest of corporations who control this organization “The question asked in ASTM meetings is, essentially, ‘What is in this for my company?’” https://t.co/M0pnSu9Iv0

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Schmidheiny given 12-year jail sentence over the deaths of hundreds of workers and residents in Casale Monferrato, Italy due to asbestos exposure from his large asbestos cement factory https://t.co/x7lJjsnB8C

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took steps Tuesday to consider a countywide ban on artificial-stone countertops due to #silicosis risk and deaths of workers after a few years of cutting/ installing these https://t.co/RFlAaYdwLD

[OK International @occupknowledge]

A large group of NGOs @Greenpeace sign letter asking @UNEP to adopt a conflict of interest disclosure policy to stop putting out reports without disclosing financial and other conflicts of the authors -- this is needed by all @UN agencies!

https://t.co/yogX6TBZff

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Another example of UNEP and other UN agencies that put out reports without conflict of interest disclosure statements

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

New @UNEP Report
Lobbies for the
Plastic/Chemical Industries
Ahead of #PlasticsTreaty INC2

UNEP
1⃣Asks the Public to Pay for #PlasticWaste Clean-up
2⃣Threatens human health, pushing for toxic plastic recycling
3⃣Promotes #ChemicalRecycling #PlasticFuels
https://t.co/S3e9yXmrzo

[OK International @occupknowledge]

The US lead market has become more dependent on imports since @Brookfield closed the Florence, SC battery recycling plant in 2021 to export used lead batteries to more polluting plants in #Mexico

[OK International @occupknowledge]

The costs of cleaning up lead contamination from legacy lead battery recycling plants just keeps going up and this is just about one facility of many....
https://t.co/OUgonuWEBb

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Our article Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century chronicles the lead industry’s actions to promote the “safe and responsible” use of lead, question science and forestall regulations on lead emissions and lead use restrictions.
https://t.co/E0JtkJP706

[OK International @occupknowledge]

Another reason to ban lead paint for all applications (as lead coatings are still allowed on "industrial" structures) as lead paint rains down on residential neighborhood from TV tower https://t.co/W7XfcwLOhD