New Mexico Occupational Health Surveillance: Fundamental Program

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• Personal Author:
  Landon MG
• Description:
  On-the-job illnesses and injuries of New Mexico's workers are costly to employers, workers and taxpayers. To better understand the work-related health problems in order to recommend effective prevention measures, the New Mexico Occupational Health Surveillance Program (NMOHSP) tracks illnesses and injuries that New Mexicans encounter at work. The NMOHSP conducts surveillance by collecting work-related illness and injury data from multiple sources for standardized state-based surveillance using occupational health indicators and by conducting focused surveillance of specific illnesses, injuries or industries. The Program also maintains the New Mexico Occupational Health Registry (NMOHR) of health care provider reports of notifiable conditions that are required under New Mexico Administrative Code 7.4.3.12 to be reported to the State. The NMOHSP has been formally conducting state-based occupational health surveillance for over 13 years. In that time the program has made enormous progress. Initially, occupational health surveillance was basic, focusing on the collection, analysis and interpretation of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) occupational health indicators (OHIs). Over time, the NMOHSP has moved to a comprehensive surveillance model that combines population-based surveillance using existing datasets and case-based surveillance predicated on the state's codified occupational notifiable conditions. This surveillance system maximizes the program's resources while operating on the budget of fundamental state-based surveillance grantees. In order to determine rates of fatalities among workers in New Mexico, partnerships with a variety of existing and new agencies were leveraged. Most importantly, the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NM DOT) and the New Mexico Department of Public Safety (NM DPS) were added as partners which provided key data for calculating workplace fatalities in New Mexico for 2013. Specifically, fatalities by industry indicated that oil and gas-related and transportation were the top two high-risk industries for workplace fatality. Collaborations continued with existing partners. One highlight of an existing collaboration is with the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center (NMPDIC), which resulted in a presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology in San Francisco. The presentation was about a probable case of green tobacco sickness from occupational preparation of e-cigarette products. NMOSHP conducted one investigation during this period. There was a collaboration with the NMPDIC on a case report of a male who was exposed to radiation from Iridium-129 while working for a pipeline inspection company in the southeast region of NM. The work done in the last year will build upon the solid foundation to expand worker health surveillance within the Health Department and to increase the awareness of occupational health to partner programs. It also launches the work in the oil and gas industry and the focus on fatalities associated with transportation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electrical Equipment And Supplies Environmental Exposure Men Mortality Occupational Health Oil And Gas Industry Preventive Medicine Radiation Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Smokers Tobacco Products Transportation Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Cigarette Smoking Electronic Components Electronic Equipment Exposure Levels Fatalities Gas Industry Health Care Health Effects Humans Injuries Models Oil Industry Preventive Medicine Risk Factors Surveillance Surveillance Programs Tobacco Transportation Industry Work Environment Worker Health Workers

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  New Mexico ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050287
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U60-OH-010899, 2016 Oct; :1-10
• Contact Point Address:
  Michael G. Landen, MD, MPH, New Mexico Department of Health, Epidemiology and Response Division, 1190 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502
• Email:
  Michael.Landen@state.nm.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  New Mexico State Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20150701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20160630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218668/cdc_218668_DS1.pdf
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