1991 Conference Summary: A National Strategy for Occupational Musculoskeletal Injuries - Implementation Issues and Research Needs

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• Alternative Title:
  1991 conference summary
• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Chaffin, Don B. ; Fine, Lawrence J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The proceedings of a conference on the development of a national strategy for occupational musculoskeletal injuries were summarized. Specific topics discussed included the scope of the national program, major federal government initiatives, the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, definition of acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries, anatomical structures of concern, multifactored risk model development, methods used for identifying job hazards, nonoccupational factors and the risk of an occupational musculoskeletal injury, fundamental research needed to understand the causes of occupational musculoskeletal injuries, and the research needed to provide the most effective prevention strategies. Evidence indicated that musculoskeletal injuries include the most costly types of occupational injuries and that they affect several million workers each year. Areas needing additional research include identifying hazardous job stressors, objectively measuring and quantifying job stress, identifying people at risk for musculoskeletal injuries, fundamental biomechanics, job hazard surveillance, and industrial planning and social/organizational issues. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  editors, Don B. Chaffin, Lawrence J. Fine
  
  with editorial assistance from Sheryl Ulin, Susan Palmiter
  
  text production by Patricia Terrell
  
  cover concept by Teryl Lynn.
  
  "The Conference, Workshops and this Report were co-sponsored by: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control, The Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering University of Michigan [and] The National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of Health."
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 22).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Biomechanical Phenomena Cumulative Trauma Disorders Ergonomics Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; Occupational-hazards; Ergonomics; Occupational-medicine; Musculoskeletal-system-disorders; Job-stress; Cumulative-trauma-disorders; Biomechanics
• Source:
  Chaffin DB, Fine LJ, eds. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 93-101, 1992 Nov; :1-27
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB93101
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publication
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  27 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00214634
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-217354
• Editor(s):
  Chaffin DB; Fine LJ
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4f615e459ad596e59b524738a10a11367f628f8c8bf1bc7ea3bbd9d4243754d33b01abf1aaaa28bf32665cf59ed4a749a0699c282086d7edfcf436478e4e05c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6901/cdc_6901_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.17 MB ]