Injuries and Occupational Safety

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• Personal Author:
  Castillo, Dawn N. ; Pizzatella, Timothy J. ; Stout, Nancy A.
• Description:
  Occupational injuries continue to exert too large a toll on the workforce. While the rate of fatal injuries in the United States has decreased markedly over time, the rate of nonfatal injuries has not been reduced as much. The prevention of workplace injuries requires concerted and consistent efforts from multiple parties using multiple strategies. In addition to the primary stakeholders in the workplace, additional groups can help reduce occupational injuries. These groups include researchers who provide the evidence base for effective prevention strategies and technologies, manufacturers and distributors of industrial equipment and tools that design and promote safety features of equipment, insurers who provide monetary incentives for good safety records and practices, and healthcare providers and public health practitioners who provide their patients and constituents with information on preventing workplace injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Hazardous Substances Morbidity Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Acute-exposure Administrative Controls Author Keywords: Occupational Injuries Causes Of Injuries Engineering Controls Epidemiology Health-hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Occupational-exposure Occupational-safety-programs Personal Protective Equipment Prevention Through Design Public-health Safe Design Surveillance Training Work-environment Workers

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• ISBN:
  9780190662677
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  411-432
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050735
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition. Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 Dec; :411-432
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:36886ce30a7d9cb6e5bc70b405a8f91c7956ae380257bc5fd5b0373b1018b8e3d218dd876c25f16d661cdde90ab70cc52c59e3d41a01e8bd224e722a3af56dc3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210965/cdc_210965_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 56.94 MB ]