Building Capacity for State-Based Occupational Health Surveillance

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• Personal Author:
  Harrison, Robert
• Description:
  Work-related injuries and illnesses are a significant public health problem in the United States. These injuries and illnesses are largely preventable. State-based surveillance systems that provide information about the magnitude and distribution of work-related injuries and illness and the circumstances in which they occur are essential to developing effective prevention programs. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conducted this project to address an identified need to increase state capacity to conduct occupational health (OH) surveillance. The aims of this proposal were to 1) Maintain and develop the Occupational Health Indicators (OHIs) as a surveillance tool; 2) Develop and disseminate communication strategies including guidance, success stories, and enhance access to state occupational health information via the CSTE website; 3) Update technical guidance for conducting occupational health surveillance, including assessment, policy development, and assurance; 4) Plan, organize, conduct, and evaluate annual scientific meetings and workshops to support NIOSH funded and unfunded state occupational health surveillance programs; 5) Support travel and assistance to attend national forums including CSTE occupational health Subcommittee meetings; and 6) Promote state, regional, and nationwide collaboration to increase occupational health surveillance capacity in the U.S., including partnership with NIOSH Surveillance Steering Group, consultations, and mentoring. This project had a significant impact on the collection and distribution of work-related injury, illness, intervention, and exposure data; and created a forum for states and national organizations to meet on key issues in occupational safety and health. Key results of this project include: Twenty-two OHIs for the years 2008-2012 were collected, evaluated and disseminated. These represent a core set of state level data that assist in the development of public health programs to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses. The CSTE website was enhanced to serve as a repository to share state-based occupational health surveillance information including data, methodological guidance, publications, success stories, links to state websites, tools, and other related resources. Several annual working meetings were convened with states and national partners with the goal of increasing capacity to protect the health and safety of workers by improving collaboration between state occupational public health programs and national organizations. CSTE ensures representation from multiple unfunded states at CSTE and other national meetings/trainings to promote knowledge transfer and improved practices in NIOSH-funded and unfunded states. CSTE OH Subcommittee members authored five influential CSTE OH Position Statements, which focused on strengthened national surveillance through updated blood lead level reporting, increased collection of work information elements, and improved access to case-level information in national data systems. This project enabled states to share pertinent information, build epidemiology and occupational health surveillance expertise, and establish more effective relationships among epidemiologists working in states and other agencies. Additionally, successful approaches to making workplaces safer and healthier begin with having the data necessary to understand the problem, which this project significantly contributed to through the collection of state-based occupational health indicator data and continued collaboration with NIOSH. All of these results have led to improvements in state epidemiological capacity to improve worker safety and health in the US. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Information Dissemination Injuries Injury Prevention Occupational Safety And Health Public Health Surveillance Surveillance Programs Worker Health Worker Safety
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  1-16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061565
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100344
• 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, R01-OH-010094, 2015 Sep; :1-16
• Contact Point Address:
  Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, California Department of Public Health, 850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building P, Third Floor, Richmond, CA 94804
• Email:
  Robert.harrison@cdph.ca.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20190630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
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