What Chemicals Do to Workers in 2026

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 17, 2026 · 23m

Work-related deaths hit 2.9 million a year, and disease outpaces injury almost eight to one. Hazardous substances alone kill over a million people annually, yet OSHA has fewer than six inspectors per million workers and most US chemical exposure limits date to the 1960s. From Tanzanian cotton farmers with no protective gear to sugarcane workers losing their kidneys to heat, this episode maps the global gap between what science knows about occupational chemical harm and what workers are actually protected from — and asks how far we really are from workers knowing the threat, knowing the fix…