Counting Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses: Taking Steps to Close the Gaps – Meeting Summary and Recommendations

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• Corporate Authors:
  Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Occupational Health Surveillance Subcommittee
• Description:
  On April 17 - 18, 2013, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) convened a working meeting in Washington D.C. to address the current state of occupational injury and illness surveillance in the United States. State and federal surveillance experts, academic and government researchers and key stakeholders reviewed new knowledge and advances made since a similar meeting held in 2009, and updated recommendations to address gaps in surveillance of work-related injuries and illnesses at the national and state levels. (See Appendix A for the meeting agenda and list of participants.) The 2009 CSTE meeting had been held in response to calls by Congress, the Institute of Medicine, and National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) sectors for improving surveillance of nonfatal work-related injuries and both fatal and nonfatal work-related illnesses in the United States (US House of Representatives, 2008; IOM, 2009; NIOSH, 2009). The 2009 meeting resulted in a number of specific recommendations to key government agencies (Appendix B). Since that time, many activities have been undertaken by BLS, OSHA, NIOSH and the state health and labor agencies to address those recommendations. Key accomplishments are highlighted in Table 1. (See Page 6 for a more extensive description of actions taken to address those recommendations). This document provides the updated set of recommendations from the 2013 meeting for building a comprehensive nationwide surveillance system for occupational injuries and illnesses that draws on a number of complementary data sources. The agencies identified to move the recommendations forward are listed after each recommendation. Recommendations that are unchanged from 2009 have (2009) in parentheses after the recommendation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Fatalities Information Dissemination Injuries Occupational Diseases Occupations Public Health Surveillance
• Publisher:
  Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-20
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061571
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 2013 Aug; :1-20
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20110701
• Source Full Name:
  Counting work-related injuries and illnesses: taking steps to close the gaps - meeting summary and recommendations
• End Date:
  20190630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225074/cdc_225074_DS1.pdf
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