Restructuring workers' compensation to prevent occupational disease

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• Personal Author:
  Tuminaro DJ
• Description:
  The presently existing barriers to the linking of the compensation system to the prevention of occupational disease as well as some promising recent efforts to link the state workers' compensation system to the prevention of occupational disease in New York State were discussed. The prospects for progress are yet uncertain. The commitment of legislators and government policy makers to this neglected area of workers' compensation will be sustained only through a vigorous coalition campaign in the years ahead. Topics considered in this report include the identification of causes and fashioning of remedies to avoid controversions and delay, occupational health and education training of workers funded by assessments on workers' compensation premiums, occupational disease diagnosis and prevention centers funded in part by workers' compensation reimbursement for occupational disease screenings, and integrating workers' compensation claims information into hazard surveillance and prevention efforts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety
• Keywords:
  Disease-prevention Legislation NIOSH-Publication Occupational-diseases Occupational-health Preventive-medicine Regulations Worker-health
• ISBN:
  9780897665230
• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  286-290
• Volume:
  572
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00202361
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 1989 Dec; 572:286-290
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2d0d0afe9c123aeb79eeb2c8a3b1adf9d8ab0fd65a3f4f3eeedc892d504aa5a9a43796dcef1ac3b79f1c1e55174daff8b615ebcccd65fff8c0038c8d85dd60d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205534/cdc_205534_DS1.pdf
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