NTOF : understanding worker deaths through surveillance

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• Alternative Title:
  National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities : understanding worker deaths through surveillance
• Personal Author:
  Marsh, Suzanne
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This blog is part of a series for NIOSH’s 50th anniversary highlighting research and prevention throughout the Institute’s history.
  
  To accomplish the NIOSH mandate, “to assure so far as possible every man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources,” an accurate, comprehensive accounting of the number of workers who die at work is needed. These data help identify high-risk worker populations and describe the circumstances surrounding workplace fatalities. Prior to 1984, there was no national system for counting occupational fatalities. To fill this knowledge gap, NIOSH that year began collecting data to provide a more accurate, consistent count of traumatic occupational fatalities and continued collecting these data until 2001. Known as the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system, NTOF provided NIOSH and other organizations a reliable count of occupational fatalities which, in turn, informed prevention efforts leading to safer workplaces.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Cause Of Death CDC--history Death Certificates NIOSH--history Population Surveillance Wounds And Injuries
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Blogs
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/104699/cdc_104699_DS1.pdf
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