Alice Hamilton Quotes

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Ask the widows and orphans of the thousands of men killed annually through the avarice of railroad corporations refusing to avail themselves of modern appliances in coupling and other improvements on their railroads. Inquire from the thousands of women and children whose husbands or fathers were suffocated or crushed in the mines through the rapacious greed of stockholders clamoring for more dividends.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

Whether we, as individuals, are motivated by simple humanity or by simple economics, we can no longer permit profits to be dependent upon an unsafe or unhealthy work site.

Experimental evidence [shows strongly] that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance [to health.]

In 1896 one out of every 11 steel workers would die on the job.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

Flint is to the lead issue what Three Mile Island was to nuclear power. People are stepping back and thinking, 'There still is lead in my home?'

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

You know, unfortunately, as to PFOS, it's starting to look like all of us. This is all of our problems. You know, all of us have been exposed to some degree to these same chemicals.

Of all the federal agencies created by Congress, one of the true success stories is the 'Mine Safety and Health Administration', which grew out of a bipartisan effort in 1977.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.