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RFK Jr.'s layoffs expected to gut worker safety agency NIOSH, officials say

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At least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health , or NIOSH , are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , multiple health officials tell CBS News .

NIOSH was created by Congress in 1970 to study worker safety and health.