Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance Program

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• Personal Author:
  Adams D ; Anderson N ; Bao S ; Bonauto, David ; Clark R ; Edwards S ; Foley M ; Gonzalez F ; Haas A ; Howard N ; Hunter D ; Jalonen E ; Kim KH ; Lin J-H ; Martin E ; Prado J ; Rappin, Christina ; Rauser E ; Rodriguez T ; Schoonover, Todd ; Sievert J ; Silverstein B ; Smith C ; Williams J ; Zhao H
• Description:
  In its most simple form public health surveillance is about collecting information for action. During the period from July 2010 - June 2015, the 'Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance and Prevention Program' consisted of five discrete programs dedicated to occupational public health surveillance. These programs are: 1. Washington Fundamental Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance Program. The program: a) Publishes an annual set of occupational health indicators. b) Identified differences in health behaviors of Washington's workforce by industry and occupation. c) Developed a method to allocate prevention resources by Washington's OSHA program. d) Identified clusters of occupational illness and injury; specifically hop dust and asthma, hydrofluoric acid burns in truck wash workers. 2. Washington Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program. The program: a) Contributed to a reduction in occupational injury fatalities in Washington, with an average of 67 workers dying annually from 2010 - 2014 compared to 77 workers dying annually from 2005-2009. b) Produced and effectively distributed over 150 fatality narratives, fatality investigations, or other resources for prevention and education to reduce fatalities in Washington State. Feedback surveys from employers deem them 'very useful' for prevention purposes. c) Is the authoritative source for occupational fatality data in Washington. 3. Using Workers Compensation Data to Identify High Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD) Risk Workplaces in Washington. The program: a) Identified positive correlations between high company WMSD claim rates and higher exposures to WMSD physical risk factors. b) Created evidence based physical job-evaluation checklists for the manufacturing, wholesale/retail, and healthcare sectors. c) Published a comprehensive report on the burden of WMSDs in Washington. 4. Two NORA Industry-based Surveillance Projects: A. The Trucking Industry Reduction Emphasis through Surveillance (TIRES) Program; The program: a) Identified the root cause of the most common work injuries in the trucking industry. b) Developed 150 trucking injury prevention resources, including pioneering the use of online simulation training tools. These resources were developed in partnership with the TIRES steering committee composed of trucking industry labor and business leaders. c) Continues to use social media and our collaborative web site, www.KeepTruckingSafe.org, for publication and information dissemination. B. Injury Reduction Among Temporary Workers in Washington State through Surveillance. The program demonstrated that temporary workers: a) Have significantly higher claims rates than their permanently-employed counterparts. b) Through a survey 423 injured temporary and age-, gender-, industry-, matched permanent workers, temporary workers showed a lack of pre-assignment job screening, inadequate safety training, and inability to refuse work assignments. 5. Maintaining and Improving Pesticide-Illness Surveillance in Washington State. This program, based at the Washington Department of Health, identified: a) A high number of pesticide drift incidents impacting farmworker and other bystanders. b) That acrolein and chorpyrifos were pesticides of high concern. c) That pesticide illness disproportionately impacts Latino farmworkers. Further the program contributed to development of a biomonitoring study of pesticide applicators, case capture of antimicrobial case reports to the pesticide surveillance program and state-federal collaborations publishing surveillance findings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Farmers Insecticides Mortality Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Disease Prevention Farm Workers Fatalities Injury Prevention MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Occupational Diseases Occupational Safety And Health Pesticides And Agricultural Chemicals Public Health Surveillance Programs Temporary 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 10 ; Washington
• 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:
  1-210
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20060705
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100326
• 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-008487, 2015 Sep; :1-210
• Contact Point Address:
  David Bonauto, MD, MPH, SHARP Program, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, PO Box 44330, Olympia, WA 98504-4330
• Email:
  david.bonauto@LNI.wa.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219007/cdc_219007_DS1.pdf
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