Expanded Program in Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance

Details

• Personal Author:
  Rosenman, Kenneth D.
• Description:
  MSU in conjunction with MIOSHA and MDHHS has been conducting state-based occupational injury and illness surveillance since 1988. The activity generated the occupational indicators, data on elevated blood leads, specific non-fatal injuries (e.g., burns), ten special projects and expanded surveillance programs for: (1) occupational lung disease; (2) acute work-related pesticide injuries and illness; and (3) work-related acute traumatic fatalities. Since initiation of multi-source surveillance, cases of work-related asthma, cases of acute pesticide poisoning, cases of silicosis and other lung diseases, elevated blood lead levels, and both acute fatal and non-fatal traumatic injuries have been confirmed. This case-based surveillance initiated follow-back enforcement MIOSHA inspections in the worksites. These inspections have included interviews of fellow workers. There has been 100% reporting from the 134 acute care hospitals in the state. A quarterly newsletter (four/year) has been written and mailed out to approximately 3,300-targeted physicians and health care professionals. Two hundred and three annual reports and 51 hazard alerts have been disseminated. Presentations and display booths at medical meetings, the publication of findings in the medical literature, postings on our website (oem.msu.edu), Twitter, and Facebook, the NIOSH Science Blog, the NIOSH Clearinghouse and notices through the Michigan medical licensing board were all performed as part of our dissemination of information. We worked with NIOSH, CSTE, other states, trade organizations and unions. The above active outreach encouraged reporting and educated employers, employees and health care professionals about hazards. We evaluated the effectiveness of our effort to improve working conditions. Innovations included expanding our educational outreach and ensuring that we addressed the hazards of vulnerable populations and minorities, as well as temporary workers and youth. New activity included expanding surveillance to include exposure surveillance, additional nonfatal traumatic injuries, projects on under-reporting, evaluation of MIOSHA inspections for following up reported cases and projects on special populations and industrial sectors. The work conducted addressed all ten NORA industry sectors and two of the cross-sector programs; surveillance and traumatic injury. We completed all our aims. This project was relevant to public health, and specifically occupational health, because it addressed all three core functions in public health: collection and analysis of data, building partnerships to promote the goal of reducing occupational illness, and assuring efforts to prevent additional work-related injuries and illness. We ensured that the surveillance data were of high quality, that stakeholders and the general public were aware and had access to the data, and that the data is available for intervention and prevention activities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Information Dissemination Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Programs Public Health Surveillance Programs
• 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:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  1-56
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066630
• 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-008466, 2021 Jul; :1-56
• Contact Point Address:
  Kenneth D. Rosenman, MD, Michigan State University, Department of Medicine, 909 Wilson Road, room 117 West Fee Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1315
• Email:
  Rosenman@msu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University
• 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:c1b2bd6419fce00c74e5fd0573b43569dabbbc42e8673d0ddecee5e52d42501377c1981f418b9dedc69e37a5e7c71a186a495155443d788879ee4dff861136f5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219166/cdc_219166_DS1.pdf
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