Occupational Injury and Illness in New Hampshire: 2011 Data Report to Inform Programs and Policies

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• Personal Author:
  Armenti KR
• Description:
  There are an estimated 740,000 civil, non-institutional workers in New Hampshire (all sectors). In 2010, more than 513,500 individuals worked in New Hampshire in over 45,600 private sector workplaces. Each year thousands of these workers are injured on the job or become ill as a result of exposure to health and safety hazards at work. These work-related events result in substantial human and economic costs, not only for workers and employers, but also for society as a whole. A new study, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), determined the cost of work-related injuries and illnesses in the United States to be $250 billion. This cost has risen by $33 billion since 1992, the last time a similar study was conducted. In New Hampshire, workers' compensation claims alone cost approximately $239 million in 2008. Work-related injuries and illnesses can be prevented with appropriate and targeted interventions. Successful approaches to making the workplace safer begin with having the most accurate and current occupational health surveillance data, which are necessary to understand the root causes of the problems that lead to occupational injury and illness. Unfortunately federal occupational health surveillance reporting requirements result in data gaps and shortfalls that do not accurately capture the true nature of occupational health and illness. This results in an inaccurate view that occupational health and illness is on a downward trend. Underreporting to OSHA of occupational injuries and illnesses has been documented within the occupational health academic field. The House Committee on Education and Labor has held extensive hearings on this issue with first-hand testimony from worker victims and OSHA employees. These hearings on underreporting of occupational health events in the workplace highlight the need to improve occupational health surveillance at the national and state level. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Economics Environmental Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Economic Impact Exposure Levels Hazards Health Protection Injuries Intervention Risk Factors Surveillance Work Environment Worker Health Workers Worker Safety

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• Publisher:
  New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  New Hampshire ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-39
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049826
• Citation:
  Concord, NH: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services, Bureau of Public Health Statistics and Informatics, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 2012 Jul; :1-39
• Contact Point Address:
  Karla R. Armenti, ScD, Principal Investigator, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Bureau of Public Health Statistics & Informatics, Division of Public Health Services, 29 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301
• Email:
  karmenti@dhhs.state.nh.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  New Hampshire State Department of Health Statistics and Data Management
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational injury and illness in New Hampshire: 2011 data report to inform programs and policies
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210448/cdc_210448_DS1.pdf
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