"Through the decade of the 1970s, NIOSH???s research helped to reduce hazardous exposures to asbestos, lead, benzene, vinyl chloride, and other substances produced or used every day in factories, plants, and steel mills.As the service sector grew in the 1980s and 1990s, NIOSH led pioneering research that helped to underpin new interventions for emerging safety and healt" . . . . .