Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance Program

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• Personal Author:
  Bonauto, David ; Howard N ; Schoonover TM ; Smith C ; Whitaker C ; Wuellner S
• Description:
  The Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance program focused on collecting data and providing information for action to prevent work-related immediate inpatient hospitalizations, occupational fatalities, work-related musculoskeletal disorders in home health workers, and occupational respiratory diseases. Data for surveillance of Washington's occupational injury and illness comes from many sources, among them Washington workers' compensation data, the WA Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, worker and employer surveys and injured workers case-follow up interviews, WA Department of Health databases, with fatality reports coming from multiple sources including news feeds, death certificates, coroner reports, state patrol, employer notifications, and federal collaborators. In this six year grant cycle, Washington State occupational surveillance programs have had several significant impacts. The overall surveillance program: 1) provided data and subject matter expertise to the WA Legislature to improve the safety of temporary agency workers, 2) identified worker self-reported workplace injury rates which were significantly associated with industry and occupation, male gender, lower socioeconomic status, chronic health conditions, and substance abuse, 3) developed a surveillance program for immediate inpatient hospitalizations for worker injuries, the NIOSH funding led to the program being adopted by Washington State with dedicated funding. Washington's FACE program focuses their efforts on high risk industries and characterizes persistent hazards-publishing education and prevention resources for: falls in roofing, siding, and framing, logging catastrophic injuries, tractor and machinery hazards in agriculture, and workplace homicide of women in retail. FACE also identified emerging issues, specifically robot-related injuries, with a laser guided forklift fatality and severe injuries with construction robots. FACE also organized Washington's participation in the national prevention campaigns for construction falls and trenching fatalities. Washington's Trucking Injury Reduction Emphasis through Surveillance (TIRES) program with assistance from its employer and labor steering committee has produced 74 safety posters, 72 injury narratives, 69 tip sheets, 43 eNewsletters, 11 company safety manager profiles, 10 training simulations, 9 eLearnings, 8 technical reports, 3 peer-reviewed journal articles, and other publications. More importantly, in a first of a kind innovation, the TIRES Safety Program Development Tool was created to help small and mid-size companies develop a safety program tailored to their needs. The Washington State Occupational Respiratory Disease Surveillance program actively monitors for the occurrence of occupational asthma, silicosis, asbestosis, inhalations of toxic substances, and occupational infectious diseases. Identifications of hop dust as an asthma causing agent, of silica exposure in countertop manufacturing, and contributions to knowledge of diacetyl exposures in coffee roasters, safety protocols of applying isocyanates via a roll-on or paint brush method, and cannabis as a causative agent for work-related asthma are recent contributions of this surveillance program. Surveillance of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in the growing Home Health Care Workforce yielded data on the high availability of lift assist equipment, significant hesitancy in reporting musculoskeletal injuries or symptoms, and an absence of consideration for the physical demands and risks facing aides when care plans for patients are developed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Agriculture Asbestos Asthma Asthma, Occupational Cannabis Communicable Diseases Construction Industry Diacetyl Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Inorganic Chemicals Isocyanates Mortality Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide Substance-Related Disorders Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Asbestosis Construction Industry Falls Fatalities Forklifts Hazards Health Care Personnel Infectious Diseases Machinery MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Respiratory Diseases Retail Workers Robotics Roofing Silica Silicosis Socioeconomics Substance Abuse Surveillance Programs Toxins Tractors Trucking Work Environment Worker Health Workers 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:
  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:
  1-69
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066396
• 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, 2021 Nov; :1-69
• Contact Point Address:
  David Bonauto, MD, MPH, SHARP Program, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, PO Box 44330, Olympia, WA 98504-4330
• Email:
  bone235@lni.wa.gov
• CAS Registry Number:
  Butanedione (CAS RN 431-03-8) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• 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/219158/cdc_219158_DS1.pdf
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