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Minnesota Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program



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    The primary purpose of the Minnesota Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program was to enhance the capacity of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to promote occupational health and safety through surveillance and dissemination of at least 19 Occupational Health Indicators (OHIs). These OHIs were previously developed and evaluated by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Beyond the core surveillance activities, additional Program objectives included an evaluation of an occupational disease reporting system for Minnesota, collaboration on a work-related asthma survey of cosmetologists, updating an occupational health and safety curriculum targeted to rural teens, conducting a survey of Minnesota high schools to determine whether school curricula included concepts of occupational health and safety, evaluating statewide student survey data to determine how working students compare to nonworking students, and estimating the rates and costs of serious agricultural injuries in Minnesota. The projects reinforced existing relationships and established new relationships with various partners interested in addressing occupational safety and health. The Minnesota Occupational Health Surveillance Program completed 22 OHIs for the years 2000-2012, as data allowed. A new MDH website was developed for the presentation and dissemination of the OHIs, indicating rates and trends, methods, and interpretation. While agricultural fatalities are well-documented, non-fatal injuries are generally excluded from existing surveillance programs. To better document these injuries, a surveillance method was developed to identify rates, trends, and costs of agriculturally-related injury. This research was a collaborative effort with the University of Minnesota. The findings provided support for an ongoing interagency collaboration to create and develop an agricultural safety program. To determine the feasibility of implementing a 70-year old Minnesota statute requiring occupational disease reporting, a literature review and a survey of state reporting systems was conducted. A report of the findings and recommendations was posted on the Program website, providing policy makers with feasible options to enhance surveillance of occupationally-related disease in Minnesota. There has been an ongoing collaboration with the MDH Asthma Program to address the identification and prevention of work-related asthma. In addition to developing web pages on WRA, the two programs collaborated on a Health Alert regarding hair-straightening products as well as a survey of cosmetologists regarding health and safety behaviors and training, as well as health status. The survey findings will be used to support efforts to provide greater training and safety information for this industry. The Work Safe Work Smart curriculum, developed and evaluated with prior NIOSH funding, was updated and reposted on the Program website. Available at no cost for download. An online survey of Minnesota high schools was conducted to determine whether any concepts of occupational health and safety were included in their curricula. The Minnesota Student Survey was used to investigate health and behavior outcomes among working youth. The findings from these surveys are being used to continue these investigations and pursue a working group to address how best to provide appropriate training to working youth. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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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:
  • 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:20062292
  • NTIS Accession Number:
    PB2022-100459
  • 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-009855, 2015 Sep; :1-17
  • Contact Point Address:
    Allan Williams, MPH, PhD, Principal Investigator, Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Chronic Disease and Environmental Epidemiology, Minnesota Department of Health, 85 East 7th Place, Suite 220, PO Box 64882, St Paul, MN 55164-0882
  • Email:
    allan.williams@state.mn.us
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2015
  • Performing Organization:
    Minnesota State Department of Health, St. Paul
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20100701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20260630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:a5c82ba84d8814c0d43a7989c8e5ab984293a6a49a86f48f4b6032c52be1df27e6c98e1b4aafa96b15b9a00ae9b69a8b84aa2cc3b15a96c665442636e784b45b
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