Surveillance of Disaster – a View from the Denominator

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• Personal Author:
  Chaiken, Robert F.
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is dedicated to achieving "safety and health at work for all people - through research and prevention." An important procedure in pursuing this goal is the NIOSH surveillance studies where the number of injuries are monitored according to demographic, employment, and injury characteristics. These numeric data are then used to identify injury risk factors, develop safety programs, and monitor implemented remediation methods. In essence, ongoing surveillance data form the bases for directing the resources of NIOSH in setting of research and prevention priorities and in evaluating safety procedures. I believe that we need to rethink our evaluation of work place disasters, what is worker exposure, and what are the underlying assumptions (both explicit and implicit) as to the impact that economic, societal and degree of hazard factors make on risk evaluation. The answers to all these problems, will require much broader considerations than those in current surveillance safety and health models. This paper discusses some facets of those considerations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Worker-health Workers Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  The International Emergency Management Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  37-45
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025378
• Citation:
  Proceedings of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Conference 1998, May 20, 1998, Washington DC. The International Emergency Management Society, 1998 May; :37-45
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Conference 1998
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2d4ce76668a3d9c4c029166496640a42025ee31451e9fe0bbb12c3632f2661a9e963031778e457ad40c86729055eb2573f86737c8fd43836d0c2eef29c810b19
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220928/cdc_220928_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB ]