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Texas Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance



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  • Personal Author:
    Patel K
  • Description:
    Over the six-year period from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2021, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) continued to make Texas occupational health surveillance data more readily accessible for compilation, analysis, and reporting purposes. Statistical and data visualization software, such as SAS, Microsoft SQL and Tableau, are now being utilized for analysis of Texas hospital discharge data (HDD) (approx. 2.9 million discharges per year), Texas Poison Center Network (TPCN) calls (approx. 300,000 calls per year), Texas vital statistics data (approx. 170,000 deaths per year), and Texas pesticide-related illness and injury (approx. 300 cases per year), and adult blood lead (approx. 1,500 laboratory test reports per year). The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) recommends collection of a core set of occupational health indicators (OHIs) to assist in the development of programs to prevent or reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. DSHS has collected, compiled, and reported on all OHIs since 2016, which had instructions and available data. For OHI data obtained from HDD and vital statistics (deaths), DSHS now routinely analyzes data by age group, race, ethnicity, sex, and a number of other parameters. DSHS also evaluates additional data sources, such as Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Texas Syndromic Surveillance System (TxS2), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Severe Injury Reporting System (SIRS) for occupational health surveillance. Over the last 6 years, DSHS staff have attended over 50 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 other occupational exposures occurring during emergencies and disasters, such as hurricanes, industrial spills, leaks and fires, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. [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:
    1-41
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20066132
  • 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-011359, 2021 Sep; :1-41
  • Contact Point Address:
    Ketki Patel, MD, MPH, PhD, Principal Investigator, Texas Department of State Health Services, Environmental Surveillance and Toxicology Branch, 1100 West 49th Street, P.O. Box 149347, MC 1964, Austin, TX 78714-9347
  • Email:
    Ketki.Patel@dshs.texas.gov
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2021
  • Performing Organization:
    Texas State Department of Health Services, Austin
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20160701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20260630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:55cd4d91b776d22f8e8346ff71dc64e4394c4b3f70d5ea9fea6970c77c56e99cb43e7a54c6a33fc3005afc9d0315aede27a7232818986a1aea033ae413d3fe5c
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