Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project

Details

• Personal Author:
  Mitchell CS
• Description:
  Maryland's Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project (OHSSP) was created in 2010 as a fundamental surveillance project, creating a permanent occupational disease surveillance structure within the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to promote occupational health and safety surveillance generally and within targeted occupational sectors of the State. For one of the main objectives, OHSSP established an occupational injury and illness surveillance program, collecting data from primary provider reports and existing administrative databases to establish ongoing reporting and analysis of occupational disease prevalence within Maryland, including the set of occupational health indicators promulgated by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). Concurrently, a technical advisory group was convened to provide feedback and guidance for determining the future direction and goals of the OHSSP. The key findings of the project were: (1) Priority health concerns identified by the data included asthma, falls; (2) epidemiologic and response capacity within DHMH was valuable in responding to both surveillance concerns and occupational exposure investigations; and (3) one of the most important findings was that the establishment of OHSSP was seen as valuable by other State agencies, employers, workers, and academic institutions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Asthma Asthma, Occupational Epidemiology Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Exposure Assessment Falls Monitoring Systems Occupational Safety And Health Public Health Surveillance Programs
• 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:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  1-17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053625
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100196
• 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-009856, 2015 Sep; :1-17
• Contact Point Address:
  Clifford S. Mitchell, MD, MPH, Director, Environmental Health Bureau, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 201 West Preston Street, Room 327, Baltimore, MD 21201
• Email:
  Cliff.Mitchell@maryland.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:459d5572a233678cbe192b9dfa1611b351c0e96e1dad36830cc2f95e7951d359dd76982e81db4b0f41158cb63ff1b25ec449a5a83f4fcd2caaa0293900c35236
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218773/cdc_218773_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 337.10 KB ]