Comparing Injury and Illness Risk Assessments for Occupational Hazards

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• Personal Author:
  Bailer AJ ; Halperin, William E. ; Reed, Laurence D. ; Seymour T ; Stayner, Leslie T.
• Description:
  One common framework for describing the evaluation and assessment of hazards in the workplace inlcudes the four steps of hazard identification, exposure assessment, exposure-response modeling, and risk characterization (NAS, 1983). We discuss hazards for occupational injory and illness in light of this framework, and we contrast the evaluation of injury hazards with the evaluation of illness hazards. In particular, the nature of the hazards, typical exposure patterns, quantification of exposure, and the attribution of outcome to exposure are discussed. Finally, we discuss the management of occupational illness and injury hazards and issues encountered when evaluating efforts designed to mitigate the effects of occupational hazards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Hazard Identification Exposure-assessment Exposure-response Modeling Exposure Assessment Intervention Research Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-health-services Risk-analysis Risk-factors Risk Characterization Risk Management Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Publisher:
  CRC Press Incorporated
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000179
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 1998 Dec; 4(6):1265-1274
• Contact Point Address:
  A. John Bailer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
• Email:
  ajbailer@muohio.edu
• Editor(s):
  Wassell JT; Bailer AJ
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fc7ef8e232414605a07c8a001806e27a74d39f54b93fc6a207fd809ecded1b898b6ae775169aeaf5802f6468be6ef7735b06525cfbd70b05be79fa095fa54f43
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198176/cdc_198176_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 213.49 KB ]