Discussion of: workers' compensation loss prevention: a white paper for discussion.

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• Personal Author:
  Bogyo T ; Morin J ; Shor G ; Utterback DF ; Welsh L ; Wurzelbacher, Steven J.
• Description:
  This paper explores the potential relationship between workers' compensation, loss prevention and public interests by providing a vocabulary and context for discussion. The role, tools and strategies of loss prevention professionals are described, and opportunities for systematic collection and use of available data for analysis, program design and intervention are discussed in detail. Workers' compensation is an important social insurance program with public policy and safety and health objectives that go far beyond the issue of compensation for injury. Loss prevention provisions are explicit in many workers' compensation statutes and implicit in others. Loss prevention services may be applied to assess risk and assist in the insurance underwriting process, or to help employers reduce the human and financial cost of workplace injury. To varying degree and effect, state-sponsored insurers, private insurers and industry safety associations use workers' compensation data for occupational safety and health surveillance and targeting for loss prevention services and initiatives. Several states mandate insurerbased loss prevention services. However, loss prevention data, including employer and insurer-based expenditures, recommendations and interventions, are not systematically collected across industries or jurisdictions. The paper concludes with a discussion of the knowledge gaps and a list of possible collaborations to organize and develop existing loss prevention programs and practices.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Chemistry Chemistry, Analytic Chromatography Environmental Monitoring Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Analytical-processes Epidemiology Hazards Health-care Health-protection Humans Injuries Men Preventive-medicine Public-health Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Women Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  191-192
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042662
• Citation:
  Use of workers' compensation data for occupational safety and health: proceedings from June 2012 workshop. Utterback DF, Schnorr TM, eds. Cincinnati, OH: 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. 2013-147, 2013 May; :191-192
• Editor(s):
  Utterback DF ; Schnorr TM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Manufacturing
• 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/181628/cdc_181628_DS1.pdf
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