NIOSH Surveillance Program [2016]

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This document has been superseded and the new version can be found here. What are our priorities? The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Surveillance Program works with partners in industry, labor, trade associations, professional organizations, government agencies, and academia. The program focuses on these areas: 1. Expanding awareness, knowledge and use of occupational safety and health surveillance data 2. Building capacity for state-based occupational safety and health surveillance 3. Integrating occupational safety and health variables into general health surveillance systems What do we do? 1. Provide new web-based tools and resources to make occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance data easier to access and use. 2. Use traditional and social media channels to increase awareness and promote use of OSH surveillance data tools and resources. 3. Share OSH documents produced by States through the Occupational Health Clearing-house. 4. Increase the number of States that include industry and occupation questions in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and support States in using the data. 5. Increase States' capacity to conduct case-based surveillance of priority occupational traumatic injuries and illnesses (e.g., pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning, silicosis, work-related asthma). 6. Continuously improve the National Industry and Occupational Computerized Coding System (NIOCCS) to increase the accuracy of coding industry and occupation in various types of health records. 7. Sponsor OSH questions in national population-based surveys. 8. Collaborate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs (e.g., infectious dis-ease, chronic disease) to include standard OSH variables in their surveillance systems. 9. Promote inclusion of OSH variables into standards for electronic health records. 10. Support use of novel sources of surveillance data such as audiometric service providers, cancer registries and poison control centers What have we accomplished? 1. Released the Work-Related Injury Statistics Query System (Work-RISQS), making data from the occupational supplement to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS-Work) publicly available. 2. Published result tables from the National Agricultural Workers Survey to the NIOSH Agricultural Safety webpage. 3. Three of the six conditions included in the first ever MMWR surveillance summary Notifiable Noninfectious Conditions were occupational exposures (lead poisoning, pesticide poisoning, and silicosis). 4. 25 States included optional industry and occupation module in BRFSS, which will allow re-searchers and others to uncover connections between occupations and risk factors 5. Sponsored supplemental OSH questions in the 2015 National Health Interview Survey, which will provide needed information on work-related conditions and exposures. 6. Demonstrated feasibility of collecting industry and occupation information into electronic health records through a pilot project with a healthcare organization in California. 7. Awarded funding through a competitive process to two states to build capacity in using worker's compensation data for OSH surveil-lance. 8. Revised the NIOSH surveillance definition of an elevated blood lead level to 5 mcg/dL. 9. Published data that was used to justify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration silica standard and the Environmental Protection Agency worker protection standard. What's next? 1. Beta test a new web-based data visualization tool that will allow users to produce custom charts using various OSH surveillance datasets. 2. Add data from the 2015 National Health Inter-view Survey Occupational Health Supplement to the NIOSH website and share results through social media. 3. Twenty five states, including two newly funded in 2016 will produce Occupational Health Indicators. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Health Population Surveillance Safety
• Keywords:
  Workers; Worker health; Surveillance Cross-Sector Research Program; Surveillance programs; Electronic health records; Databases; Epidemiology
• Source:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2016-148, 2016 May; :1
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Program Performance One-Pagers (PPOP)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OPPE - Office of Program Planning and Evaluation ; OD - Office of the Director ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048151
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40563/cdc_40563_DS1.pdf
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