Costs and Benefits of Occupational Health Nursing

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• Alternative Title:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recent accomplishments
• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  Arthur D. Little, Inc.
• Description:
  The costs and benefits associated with occupational health nursing programs were studied. One pair of small manufacturing facilities from the clothing, electronics, processing machinery, and textile industries was selected; one facility in each pair employed a nurse and the other did not. Information related to costs and benefits of an occupational health nursing program was collected for a 3 year retrospective period. An occupational health nursing program provided substantial economic benefits to employers and employees in small facilities. Less benefit from a nursing program was found in small facilities which had few occupation hazards or which had developed cost effective alternatives for the delivery of occupational medical care. The author recommends that facility managers pay greater attention to costs associated with employee illness and injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Absenteeism Accidents, Occupational Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Occupational-health-programs; Medical-facilities; Health-services; Medical-personnel; Industrial-hazards; Workplace-studies; Absenteeism; Accidents
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 80-140, 1980 Sep; :1-83
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB80140
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract no. 210-78-0065
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DTS - Division of Technical Services
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  97 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00104881
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-223893
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:46036f07ee30c070847177ebd8fa3a69764d5605c66f52d94ef70d90dcb4d6042dca9d4db9e6785687673ee748c107800bd85989e89ac7394345868b4defa923
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116497/cdc_116497_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.58 MB ]