Improving Occupational Health in Oregon: Turning Data to Action

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• Personal Author:
  Cude CG ; Olson, Ryan
• Description:
  This final progress report summarizes accomplishments for the overall, fundamental and expanded fatal work-related injury state-based surveillance projects of the Oregon Occupational Public Health Program (OPHP) cooperative agreement (U60 OH008472) between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2021. The overall program contributed to the success and growth of state-level occupational health programs and projects, including the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition, Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conferences, and multi-agency investigations and rulemaking. The overall program investigated innovative areas for occupational health surveillance including traumatic brain injuries, back injuries, high-risk shiftwork and risks attributed to climate change. The overall program invested in the future occupational health workforce through internships contributing to development of a new surveillance database, social network analysis of safety opinion leaders, evaluation of the Occupational Health Indicator (OHI) surveillance system and evaluation of non-disabling claims for young workers. Through fundamental OHI surveillance, staff generated up to 25 primary OHIs annually. OHI supported development of a pesticide poisoning investigation and reporting module in Oregon's reportable conditions database (known as Orpheus). OHI also supported the addition of a new data source: emergency department and urgent care clinic reports of pesticide poisonings from the Oregon syndromic surveillance system (known as ESSENCE). These changes improved the quantity and quality of pesticide poisoning case investigations. OHI participated in the surveillance system evaluation and made subsequent improvements to the timeliness and usefulness of program data. OHI piloted innovative data sources, including the Oregon Trauma Registry, ESSENCE and Orpheus, to assess work-related illness and injury. The Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) program continued core activities in surveillance, investigation, assessment and outreach. These efforts produced annual reports of Occupational Fatalities in Oregon, in-depth investigations of selected cases and a broad range of additional outreach activities and outputs. Work related to additional specific aims resulted in additional resources, discoveries and outputs including creation of a new state-of-the-art REDCap database for fatality surveillance data. The program also partnered with the SAIF Corporation's (workers compensation insurer) Agricultural Seminar Series to reach thousands of agricultural workers with fatality prevention information. We also conducted a social network analysis within a specific wine growing region in the state that identified a trusted source of safety information to assist with targeted outreach in that industry. Field research to inform fatality prevention efforts showed that mobile phone delivery of safety toolbox talks to construction supervisors increased the frequency of safety meetings. Other lessons learned in that project will guide future dissemination of our evidence-based safety toolbox talks. We partnered with the SAIF Corporation to conduct fall prevention research with small-to-medium sized construction policy holders. In that project we discovered that policy holders that had recently experienced a serious loss fall injury were more likely to be responsive to an invitation to participate in a fall prevention practices survey than policy holders that had not experienced a recent injury. This project resulted in offering small grants for competent person training that were accepted by several survey completers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Climate Change Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Climate Change Information Dissemination Injury Prevention 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:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• 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:
  1-50
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067411
• 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-008472, 2021 Sep; :1-50
• Contact Point Address:
  Curtis G Cude, Public Health Division, Oregon Health Authority, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232
• Email:
  curtis.g.cude@dhsoha.state.or.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• 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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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219194/cdc_219194_DS1.pdf
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