Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project

Details

• Personal Author:
  Mitchell CS
• Description:
  The Maryland Department of Health's Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project (OHSSP) completed a successful project period, with significant progress made in occupational health surveillance, prevention, and response activities. The project included the following activities: 1. Continue to produce occupational health indicators demonstrating trends in occupational illness and injury in Maryland; 2. Improve surveillance for occupational illness and injury in the state through use of other surveillance systems like the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, infectious disease surveillance, and electronic laboratory reporting; 3. Increase outreach and prevention activities through partnerships with other public health-focused organizations; and 4. Improve outcomes related to opioid-related morbidity and mortality through research and outreach activities focused on the workplace. The project identified potential benefits for worker safety and health through improvements of occupational surveillance systems, as well as specific outcomes related to occupational infectious disease surveillance. In the area of opioids morbidity and mortality, the OHSSP identified opportunities to improve management of opioids in the workplace and continues to pursue this objective. The project also played a major role in responding to workplace prevention activities in the Department's overall response to major infectious disease events (Ebola virus disease and COVID-19). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Communicable Diseases Education Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  COVID-19 Ebola Virus Disease Infection Prevention Infectious Diseases Information Dissemination Occupational Exposure Occupational Hazards Occupational Health Services Preventive Measures Public Health Surveillance Programs Worker Health Worker Safety

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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:
  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:
  1-11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066305
• 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-011154, 2021 Sep; :1-11
• Contact Point Address:
  Clifford S. Mitchell, MS, 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 21201-2301
• Email:
  Cliff.Mitchell@maryland.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160701
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:ae96cf67271377be7f9bc60309f98252811984520603b3136905bb5061af7eea28aa010486063a82df840c948e28ff2e1c6cc4baf89e63ddb3e96a9fd248d175
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219154/cdc_219154_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 287.32 KB ]