California Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program

Details

• Personal Author:
  Beckman J ; Flattery J ; Harrison, Robert ; Materna B ; Styles, Laura
• Description:
  The overall purpose of this project was to maintain and enhance the capacity of California's occupational health surveillance program to identify state priorities and guide efforts to improve and protect worker safety and health; monitor statistical and other trends and progress over time; and develop and distribute prevention and intervention recommendations. This proposal included the Occupational Health Indicators and three program areas: Occupational Respiratory Disease, Occupational Pesticide Illness, and Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation. The Occupational Health Branch (OHB) has a long and successful history (since 1987) of working in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), other state OH programs, and partners within California to promote worker health and safety through our public health prevention efforts. Our surveillance and intervention activities are integrated within the prevention activities of both OHB and the broader public health infrastructure in California, including other CDPH programs, other state and local public health agencies, Cal/OSHA, academic institutions, the workers' compensation system, and organizations representing workers, employers, and health professionals. Project activities were based on the premise of research to practice - of completing the surveillance loop by translating findings from surveillance data analyses, case ascertainment, and field investigations into practical interventions, prevention strategies, and policy recommendations; tailoring prevention messages to each target audience using stakeholder input during product development; gathering evaluation feedback to ensure that the guidance is useful; and continually improving the program's performance and effectiveness. The successful implementation of this program was aimed at reducing the burden of occupational illness and injury in California by providing outputs, including presentations, web-based resources, educational materials, and journal articles, that are easily usable by stakeholders for implementing workplace improvements and policy changes. Projected intermediate and end outcomes include changes in work practices and reductions in worker exposures at facilities that adopt the recommendations for interventions and prevention strategies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Information Dissemination Injuries Injury Prevention Occupational Exposure Public Health R2p Research To Practice Initiative Surveillance Programs Worker Health Worker Safety
• 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:
  California ; 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:
  1-61
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066528
• 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-008468, 2021 Oct; :1-61
• Contact Point Address:
  Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, California Department of Public Health, 850 Marina Bay Parkway, Building P, 3rd Floor, Richmond, CA 94804
• Email:
  Robert.harrison@ucsf.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:e3c27647b1675ac45ad8a7bf5c3b137bb76f588043a46f5323d300ed3b48c6a31d04385bdbc9f599cbabf888d66025f6379bf1052c1b6333ba7c33b9c5a68df4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219163/cdc_219163_DS1.pdf
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