Minnesota Occupational Health Indicators

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• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  Working age Minnesotans spend on average half or more of their waking hours at work. While employment provides enormous benefits to individuals and to society, many workers remain at risk of injuries, illnesses, and even death. Although implementation of labor laws and occupational health standards have greatly improved the well-being of the workforce, continued efforts are necessary to monitor the health and safety of Minnesota workers. This report focuses on various indicators of occupational safety and health. Ongoing surveillance of workplace injuries, illnesses, and exposures is essential for evaluating occupational health programs and for preventing future injury and illness. A joint effort between epidemiologists and researchers with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) developed indicators of occupational health and safety. NIOSH, though its State Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance Program, provides funding to states to complete and disseminate these indicators. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Center for Occupational Health and Safety was funded by NIOSH in 2010 to develop the Minnesota Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program and the funding was continued in 2015 for another five years. As part of this NIOSH cooperative agreement, these Occupational Health Indicators (OHIs) are calculated each year using available data sources to describe occupational health and safety in Minnesota. The compiled indicators for Minnesota and other participating states are available at: http://www.cste.org/members/group.aspx?id=106668. The occupational health and safety indicators are a set of surveillance tools created to measure and track different aspects of the health and safety of Minnesota's workforce. These indicators can provide useful information and data for policy makers, employers, employees, and occupational health and safety specialists. They can be used for education, developing health and safety priorities, allocation of limited resources, and evaluating the effectiveness of prevention policies and programs. Indicators were calculated for the years 2000 through 2013. For several OHIs, data for 2014 or 2015 were also available and are shown. Trend analysis was completed for applicable indicators, indicating how occupational injury and disease rates may be changing in Minnesota. Secondary (existing) data sources were used to calculate the indicators. Since the original data was collected by a variety of programs to meet the needs and requirements of those programs, the data can vary in terms of accuracy, completeness, and reliability when used for occupational health surveillance. In addition, these secondary data sources become available at different times for different years, and may lag from one to three years. Limitations of specific OHIs are noted in the narrative for those OHIs. While these limitations can present a challenge in estimating the true prevalence and incidence of work-related injury and disease in Minnesota, they do provide adequate information for setting priorities, examining trends, and identifying at-risk populations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Surveillance Worker Health Worker Safety
• Publisher:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-110
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062299
• Citation:
  St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Department of Health, 2016 Dec; :1-110
• Contact Point Address:
  Minnesota Department of Health, Center for Occupational Health and Safety, PO 64882, St. Paul, 55164
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota State Department of Health, St. Paul
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  Minnesota occupational health indicators
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225577/cdc_225577_DS1.pdf
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