| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (xxiii, 294 pages)) : illustrations, maps |
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Consensus study report |
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Consensus study report.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Building a "smarter" national surveillance system -- Overview of agencies and stakeholders -- Current status of federal and state programs and cross-cutting issues -- International approaches to occupational health surveillance -- Promising developments and technologies -- Key actions to move forward with an ideal national occupational safety and health surveillance system -- Next steps for improving worker safety and health through a smarter occupational surveillance system -- Appendices. Recommendations -- Committe biosketches -- Open session meeting agendas -- Updates on recommendations from the 1987 National Research Council report "Counting injuries and illnesses in the workplace: proposals for a better system" -- OSHA rorm 300 and related pages |
| Summary |
The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, and it has a profound influence on health and well-being. Although some occupations and work-related activities are more hazardous than others and face higher rates of injuries, illness, disease, and fatalities, workers in all occupations face some form of work-related safety and health concerns. Understanding those risks to prevent injury, illness, or even fatal incidents is an important function of society. Occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance provides the data and analyses needed to understand the relationships between work and injuries and illnesses in order to improve worker safety and health and prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. Information about the circumstances in which workers are injured or made ill on the job and how these patterns change over time is essential to develop effective prevention programs and target future research. The nation needs a robust OSH surveillance system to provide this critical information for informing policy development, guiding educational and regulatory activities, developing safer technologies, and enabling research and prevention strategies that serves and protects all workers. A Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of OSH surveillance. This report is intended to be useful to federal and state agencies that have an interest in occupational safety and health, but may also be of interest broadly to employers, labor unions and other worker advocacy organizations, the workers' compensation insurance industry, as well as state epidemiologists, academic researchers, and the broader public health community. The recommendations address the strengths and weaknesses of the envisioned system relative to the status quo and both short- and long-term actions and strategies needed to bring about a progressive evolution of the current system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
This activity was supported by Grant 200-2011-38807 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Grant HHSP233201400020B from the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Grant DOL-OPS-16-P-000193 from Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization or agency that provided support for the project |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 20, 2018) |
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Public health surveillance -- United States
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Industrial hygiene -- United States -- Data processing
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Industrial safety -- United States -- Data processing
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Industrial accidents -- United States -- Data processing
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Occupational Health
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Epidemiological Monitoring
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Population Surveillance -- methods
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Accidents, Occupational -- statistics & numerical data
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Safety Management -- methods
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Industrial accidents -- Data processing
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Industrial hygiene -- Data processing
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Industrial safety -- Data processing
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Public health surveillance
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United States -- Statistics, Medical
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Medical statistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Developing a Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century, issuing body.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9780309463003 |
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0309463009 |
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