Welcome to the Safety and Health Historical Society (SHHS) web site! SHHS seeks to celebrate the people, events, methods, accomplishments, and records from the history of safety, industrial hygiene, fire protection, physicians and nurses, insurance, government, human factors, societies, organizations, publications, companies and other entities that have moved the safety and health professions forward for well over 100 years. There are many, many stories to tell and accomplishments to capture and share. That is the goal of the Safety and Health Historical Society.
Join SHHS to learn of our past and to contribute to uncovering and telling about the significant accomplishments of the past!
The Archives of Safety and Health
The primary means for sharing the accounts from the past is through the official journal of the Safety and Health Historical Society. The Archives will tell the stories that influenced safety and health today.
Framingham Safety Survey – 1917
Teaching Safety in Technical Schools and Universities – 1918
A Shipbuilder’s Idea of Safety First – 1918
Origins of Federal Workmen’s Compensation Law
Training Early Safety Inspectors
Women’s Bodies & Dangerous Trades in England, 1890-1914
The Worst Fire in United States History (1871)
Promoting the Safety Profession – 1923
The Browder Life-Saving Net
Shaving Cream Promotes Safety
Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire of 1977
NIOSH – Project MINERVA
Walter Dill Scott: Business Efficiency- 1912
Meet Alice Hamilton
Plumbism and Saturnism
Factory Inspection Challenge – 1905
Spanish Flu of 1918
NIOSH – Project SHAPE
Early Accident Classification
1911 – 3D Printing for Fire Protection?
On The Training of Safety Engineers – 1943
Electrical Safety Code History
English as the Aviation Language
Dangerous Fashions
Springfield, IL – Sociological Survey – 1914
English for Safety Campaign of 1918. Is this still an issue today?
1917 Safety Poetry
Meet Frances Perkins
Battling to Improve Fire Protection – 1908-1912
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire – March 25, 1911
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