Using the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Claim and Policy Data Systems for Surveillance and Prevention of Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, Fatalities, and Exposures to Occupational Hazards

Details

• Personal Author:
  Al-Tarawneh I
• Description:
  The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (OBWC) received a grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to utilize the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation claim and policy data systems for surveillance and for prevention of occupational injuries, illnesses, fatalities, and exposures to occupational hazards through collaborative research. The specific aims of the grant agreement were to: 1. Combine state workers' compensation (WC) claim information with the number of employees from the Unemployment Insurance (UI) data adjusted with hours per industry data from the Labor Productivity and Costs program of the BLS for the purpose of developing rates of WC claims per full time equivalents (FTE) by specific North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries and employer sizes.; 2. Calculate rates of Workers' Compensation (WC) claims of injury per full-time-equivalent employees (FTE) by employer size and industry sector according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).; 3. Utilize the data to better prioritize resources in Ohio dedicated to preventing occupational safety and health injuries and illnesses. Identify high-priority industries on which to focus injury-prevention efforts using injury-rate data. The OBWC's Division of Safety and Hygiene (DSH) offers loss prevention services to Ohio employers. These services include ergonomics, industrial safety, and industrial hygiene consulting and occupational safety and health training and education. Other employer services offered by DSH include Safety Congress and Expo (3-day conference) and sponsorship of local safety councils. These services are funded by policy-holder-paid premiums and assessments paid by self-insured companies in Ohio. The data from this project was used to prioritize loss prevention services.; 4. Create a publicly accessible electronic WC case datasets including employer NAICS industry, coded fields for type of injury, etc. OBWC and NIOSH collaborated to create and publish interactive charts and graphs that display summaries of Ohio workers' compensation injury claims. These dashboards contain dynamic, interactive, user-friendly summaries of more than 1.2 million workers' compensation claims from Ohio, aggregated from 2001 to 2015, and broken down by industry sector.; and 5. Disseminate significant findings. Produce and publish collaborative research regarding injury cause and prevention using Ohio WC claims data and other data collected by OBWC for prevention purposes. Several journal articles were published as a result of collaboration between NIOSH and BWC utilizing the dataset developed during this project. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Morbidity Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Rates Injuries Morbidity Rates Mortality Data Occupational Exposure Occupations Surveillance Programs Workers Compensation
• 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:
  Ohio ; 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:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066735
• 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-011141, 2021 Sep; :1-12
• Contact Point Address:
  Ohio State Bureau of Workers' Compensation, 13430 Yarmouth Dr., Pickerington, OH 43147-8310
• Email:
  abe.tarawneh@bwc.state.oh.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Ohio State Bureau of Workers' Compensation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160801
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20190731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:25fb70ee0b9374eccc8e7e829411fe87a5405a07c69cd99e60d716c7372ea6f4ddc210dbdf50642e19c3c68ee12ea79252dd0ba9558e5aa51cc54f649bb27bfd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219168/cdc_219168_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 720.65 KB ]