Workplace surveillance best practices posted online

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Workplace surveillance best practices posted online

Anyone who missed last year's three-day workplace surveillance best

practices workshop, hosted by NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda

Surveillance Research Methods Team and the Division of Surveillance, Hazard

Evaluations, and Field Studies, has another chance to get the information

that was presented there. NIOSH has posted the papers presented during the

various workshops on its Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/sbw.

The workshop presentations include the following topics:

Opening session and invited presentations

Background and goals

Keynote remarks

Workplace Surveillance: Principles and Practices

Changing Nature of the Workforce, Work and Business Organizations

Surveillance Activities at the World Trade Center Disaster

Workplace Surveillance at the World Trade Center Site

Tasks for Tomorrow

Opportunities and roles for labor

A Model Approach for Union-based Injury and Illness Tracking

People, Partners, Performance: Incident Surveillance to Change the

Electrical Safety Culture in Construction and Industrial Work

Medical Monitoring Program for Joint Labor-Management Trust Funds

Allies in the Fight Against Silica

Fatal Work Injuries Involving Extractive Occupations

Accessing Bureau of Labor Statistics Injury and Illness Data

Occupational Mortality Surveillance of International Union Members

Removing the Blindfolds: Exposing Serious Unidentified Risks in Key

Occupations and Tasks Through Followback Studies in the BLS Annual Survey of

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses

Managing workplaces of 50 to 5 million--new issues, new approaches

The Argument for Descriptive Epidemiology Using a Comprehensive Health Data

Surveillance System Instead of Daily or Weekly Injury Reports

Cost Effective Medical Surveillance for Smaller Companies

Intervention and Prevention of Weather-Related Injuries at WPAFB, OH from

January 1997 through January 2000

Australian Coal Mining Health Surveillance Programs

A Unique Surveillance Tool for Targeting Power Line Contact Interventions

A Model Medical Surveillance Program for Persons in Hazardous Waste

Operations

Maximizing the Use of BLS Methods & Data for On-going Work Injury & Illness

Surveillance

Opportunities and roles for occupational safety and health professionals

USDOE Former Worker Medical Monitoring Program, 2001

Technique and Equipment Pitfalls in Spirometry Testing: Serious Threats to

Your Respiratory Surveillance Program

Occupational Medical Surveillance in the Beryllium Industry

The Effectiveness of the Hands-free Technique in Reducing Operating Room

Injuries

The Worksteps Model

Occupational Hazards in Eating and Drinking Places

An Information Tool to Assist in the Surveillance of Occupational Diseases

Caused by Chemical and Biological Agents

Opportunities and roles for academia

Integrating Workplace Exposure Databases, Epidemiologic Studies, Worker

Notification and Medical Surveillance at a Former Nuclear Weapons Facility

The Vinyl Chloride Surveillance Program: Insights and Opportunities

Modular Questionnaire and Visual Recall Prompts for Occupational History

Data Collection

Evidence-based Medical Examinations for Hazardous Materials Firefighters

Best Practices for Reducing Blood and Body Fluid Exposures in Health Care

Workers

A Comparison of Hazard-based Assignment with Administrative Assignment to

Medical Surveillance Programs at a Large Nuclear Weapons Clean-up Site

Links between public health and worksite surveillance of occupational

illness, injuries and hazards

The New York State Occupational Health Clinic Network Database

Laboratory Reporting for Identifying Workplace Pesticide Illness

Surveillance and Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders among Garment

Workers: Obstacles and Practical Solutions

The Link Between Workplace and Public Health Surveillance: Example of a

Web-based Surveillance System for Sharps Injuries Among Health Care Workers

in Massachusetts

Workplace Amputations

Occupational Fatalities to Hispanic Workers

A Comparison of Data Sources for the Surveillance of Work-related Carpal

Tunnel Syndrome in Massachusetts

The Youth Employment Training Pilot Program

Risk management, prevention, measurement

A Public/Private Partnership Model to Reduce Occupational Dermatitis:

Surveillance, Intervention and Outcomes

A System for Rapid Analysis of Transactional Insurance Data to Identify

Trends in Costs of Work-Related Injuries

Surveillance of Occupational Injury Through a Worker's Compensation

Insurance Provider

A Balanced Approach to Safety and Health Measurement: New Tools for Driving

Superior Performance

National and state perspectives on workplace surveillance

Surveillance of Occupational Asthma by the Korean Occupational Safety and

Health Agency

MIOSHA's Strategic Plan for Reducing Amputations in Michigan

Using Surveillance Data to Develop Training for Small Businesses in Maine

Florida Develops a Workplace Safety and Health Program Based on Promising

Practices of Other State Programs

Injures and Illnesses in the Public Sector Comparing OSHA 18 b States vs.

Non-18b States

A Multi-Component Model for Effective Special Topic Surveys: The Example of

the Survey of Respirator Use and Practices

Poster session

Analysis of respirable coal dust monitoring programs in Australia

The Ontario Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Program

Health Surveillance Policy Following Corporate Merger

Using a Corporate Website to Monitor Health and Safety at a Large

Manufacturing Company

A Strategic Approach to Effective Workplace Surveillance

Using Incident Reviews to Identify and Track Workplace Injuries, Exposures

and Hazards at a Large Construction Site

Workplace Surveillance of Award Winners

Operational Risk Management

Special and encore presentations

World Trade Centers--Personal Perspectives on the Collapse and the Design

and Implementation of a Health Surveillance Program

Update on OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations

Breakout session reports

Opportunities and Roles for Labor

Managing Workplaces of 50 to 50 million

Opportunities and Roles for Occupational Safety and Health Professionals

Opportunities and Roles for Academia

Links between Public Health and Worksite Surveillance of Occupational

Illness, Injuries and Hazards

National and State Perspectives on Workplace Surveillance

Risk Management, Prevention and Measurement

NORA partner report

Managing workplaces of 50 to 50 million

Opportunities and Roles for Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics

NIOSH

NIOSH is also offering a Workshop CD, containing PowerPoint sideshows,

database demonstrations and other workshop handouts. For ordering

information, go to http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/sbw/order-cd.html.