Conducting Worksite Investigations

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• Personal Author:
  Bernard, Bruce P.
• Description:
  This chapter focuses on conducting worksite investigations, including walkthrough surveys, and provides occupational health and safety personnel, employees, and employers the opportunity to identify and assess current workplace conditions and employee health concerns and make recommendations on how to reduce or eliminate any identified workplace hazards. The methods described cover ways to implement corrective actions necessary for preventing future adverse incidents and to identify shortcomings in safety and health management programs. Various specific examples are provided. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Hazard Evaluation Program, which has experience with all types of workplace hazards, is described. Preparing for and conducting workplace investigations is described in detail. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Engineering Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Walkthrough Surveys Control-technology Disease-prevention Employee-health Engineering-controls Environmental-control Environmental-health Environmental-technology Health-hazards Health Hazard Evaluations Industrial-processes Injury-prevention National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Public-health Risk-analysis Work-analysis Work-environment Work-performance Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies Workplace Hazards Workplace Investigations

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• ISBN:
  9780190662677
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; 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
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050793
• 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; :681-693
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• 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
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211007/cdc_211007_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.93 MB ]