Did History (Actually) Teach Us Anything?
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The Radium Girls - 1917
2 December 2025 | Season 1 | 17 mins 22 secs
cancer, factories, girls, health and safety, iosh, jaw necrosis, nebosh, necrosis, new jersey, orange, osha, poisoning, radioactive, radium, radium girls, radium-based paint, radium-poisoning, rrc, safety, safety laws, united states radium corporation, usa, war factories, war girls, watch-dial painting, world war i
We'll discover who the Radium Girls were, and how their tragic fate led to a change in workplace safety laws forever.