Collecting and reporting data on workplace injuries and illnesses can help foster new technologies, education activities and policy changes to make workplaces safer and healthier.
State-based worker health surveillance
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): What Is Surveillance?
- NIOSH: Guidelines for Minimum and Comprehensive State-Based Public Health Activities in Occupational Safety and Health.
- Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Occupational Health Surveillance Subcommittee.
- Indicators for Occupational Health Surveillance (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2007).
Tools and resources
- NIOSH Industry and Occupation Computerized Coding System (NIOCCS) is a Web-based system that translates industry and occupation (I&O) text into standardized I&O codes.
- NIOSH/Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) is software used to code occupational injury and illness incidents.
- An inventory of occupational health and safety surveillance data sources is coming soon.