Maryland Occupational Health Surveillance Report, 2000–2013

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• Personal Author:
  Dissen E ; Liu A ; Mitchell CS
• Description:
  About 3 million people work in Maryland, and in 2013 more than 3 of every 100 workers experienced a work-related injury or illness, including a total of 79 work-related fatalities. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in association with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), has recommended that states conduct surveillance for a set of 24 occupational health indicators. Occupational health indicators are measures of health (work-related disease or injury) or factors associated with health (workplace exposures, hazards, or interventions) that allow a state to compare its health or risk status with that of other states and evaluate trends over time. These data can help guide priorities for prevention and intervention efforts. The indicators that have been developed represent the consensus view of state and NIOSH representatives and are intended as advisory to the states. The 24 occupational health indicators include: 16 Health effect indicators (measures of injury or illness that indicate adverse effects from exposure to known or suspected occupational hazards), 1 Exposure indicator (measures of markers in human tissue or fluid that identify the presence of a potentially harmful substance resulting from exposure in the workplace), 4 Hazard indicators (measures of potential for worker exposure to health and safety hazards in the workplace), 2 Intervention indicators (measures of intervention activities or intervention capacity to reduce workplace health and safety hazards), and 1 Socioeconomic impact indicator (measure of the economic impact of work-related injuries and illnesses). Maryland currently tracks 20 indicators. Tracking occupational health indicators allows Maryland to: Measure baseline health of worker populations; Identify trends and patterns of work-related injury, illness, and death; Identify problem areas that require attention; Reduce preventable workplace injuries; and Increase consistency and availability of occupational disease and injury surveillance data. Maryland has also elected to conduct surveillance for one state-specific occupational health indicator (Work-related emergency department visits), and has expanded surveillance for some indicators to include substate data and breakdowns by race and ethnicity. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Health Effects Injuries Injury Prevention Occupational Exposure Occupational Hazards Occupational Health Services Outdoor Workers Public Health Surveillance Programs
• Publisher:
  Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-41
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053852
• Citation:
  Baltimore, MD: Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2016 Jul; :1-41
• Email:
  dhmh.envhealth@maryland.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150701
• Source Full Name:
  Maryland occupational health surveillance report, 2000-2013
• End Date:
  20160630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:511b9d1064bd633c4fb308fab57309df5d1bb717f2992ed50b5e10d99f42a575dfef5c372ec4546cca6e913d05567b6bc53ee306c8d2d0259ea5ab2d129fe9f1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216540/cdc_216540_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.78 MB ]