Use of Michigan Workers’ Compensation Data for Surveillance of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

Details

• Personal Author:
  Reilly MJ ; Rosenman, Kenneth D.
• Description:
  Michigan State University (MSU) acting as the bona fide agent of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) partnered with the Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency (WDCA), and the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) to respond to Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) RFA-OH-14-007 on Workers' Compensation Surveillance. The work conducted addressed all ten National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) industry sectors and three of the cross-sector programs; musculoskeletal disease, surveillance and traumatic injury. We completed our aims to: 1) Develop rates of workers' compensation (WC) claims per full time equivalents (FTE) by industry, gender, age, injury and employer size; and 2) Develop an electronic interactive WC case dataset accessible to the public. 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 prevention activities. We disseminated the availability of the Workers' Compensation (WC) case datasets to employers, employees, health and safety professionals, public health professionals and researchers. MIOSHA assisted in determining follow-up interventions. We also have made available the methods for analyzing and formatting the data so that the workers' compensation data can be updated in the future. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Occupational Health 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:
  1-55
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067364
• 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-010892, 2020 Sep; :1-55
• 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:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20200831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b4f46e3222b94cc7d9d380a3a1a38b4e27fe2c8b00462b08ac87670a4fc4e26ce00c3d4bbda6004c3341e47f236531d471f412503d7a919d49e5126e398cad0b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219193/cdc_219193_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.48 MB ]