PAR-14-275 State OH Surveillance Cooperative Agreement

Details

• Personal Author:
  Beauchamp RA
• Description:
  Funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) from July 2015 through June 2016, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Occupational Health and Safety and Pesticide Exposure Surveillance in Texas program worked to bring attention to occupational health issues. The program conducted population-based occupational health and safety surveillance for all occupational health indicators in order to estimate their magnitude and trends in Texas. Additionally, DSHS conducted surveillance for all occupational pesticide, silicosis, and asbestosis exposures. The program extracted information from additional data sources, including hospital discharge, poison control network, vital statistics, EMS & Trauma Registries, and Texas Department of Transportation crash records, to further characterize occupational injuries and illnesses and identify emerging issues. By looking at these data sources, we determined that adolescent occupational toxic exposures may be an unrecognized hazard in the Texas and that there is frequent underreporting or lack of access to medical care among farmworkers. By linking crash and trauma data we were able to assess county-level associations between oil and gas well activity and commercial motor vehicle-associated crash fatalities and show that counties with more active wells have higher rates of commercial motor vehicle-related fatal motor vehicle crashes than counties with few or no active wells. We collaborated with the Texas Department of Agriculture to investigate occupational exposure to pesticides occurring in farmworkers. We conducted outreach and education at over 60 meetings, workshops, and training events attended by hundreds of workers, students, employers, and public health professionals, and gave presentations and/or distributed brochures on various occupational health topics, including adult lead exposure, childhood lead exposure resulting from parental occupational lead exposure, silicosis, asbestosis, work-related pesticide illness and injury, and workplace falls [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Adolescent Asbestos Education Environmental Exposure Farmers Hazardous Substances Inorganic Chemicals Insecticides Lead Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Silicon Dioxide Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Adolescents Asbestosis Exposure Levels Falls Farm Workers Pesticides Pesticides And Agricultural Chemicals Public Health Risk Factors Silica Silica Dusts Silicosis Surveillance Surveillance Programs Toxins Training 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:
  OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• 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:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20052471
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2018-101542
• 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 U60-OH-008473, 2016 Sep; :1-15
• Contact Point Address:
  Richard A. Beauchamp, Texas Department of State Health Services, Environmental and Injury Epidemiology and Toxicology, Unit 1100 West 49th Street, P.O. Box 149347
• Email:
  Richard.Beauchamp@dshs.state.tx.us
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Texas State Department of Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060701
• 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/218706/cdc_218706_DS1.pdf
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