Wisconsin Expanded Program Occupational Health Surveillance Project

Wisconsin Department Of Health Services, Madison WI

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Abstract

State Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance Program (U60) PAR-20-312 Wisconsin Occupational Health Surveillance Expanded Program Project Summary Wisconsin’s partnership since 1984 with National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has enabled the Occupational Health (OH) Program to develop the capabilities, partnerships, and capacity to reduce occupational injuries and deaths in Wisconsin and contribute occupational health data to the national surveillance system. Wisconsin’s OH Program activities meaningfully advance NIOSH priorities, National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) priorities, Healthy People 2030 objectives, and Wisconsin’s health improvement plan. The Expanded Program has three specific aims: 1) Continue and expand Wisconsin’s occupational illness, injury and death surveillance activities; 2) Disseminate Occupational Health information to Wisconsin stakeholders and national partners; 3) Identify, develop and promote public health interventions to improve occupational health and safety. Three expanded projects are proposed: Enhancement of Occupational Surveillance through Electronic Case Reporting and Data Capture; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Prevention of Occupational Infectious Diseases; and Occupational Respiratory Disease Surveillance. Continued funding will allow the Wisconsin OH program to expand population and individual based surveillance data to yield important information about trends, injury clusters, and emerging issues that will support effective, science-based interventions for targeted worker populations, especially those most at risk for injury or illness. The proposed Expanded Program will use and improve Wisconsin’s occupational health surveillance data systems to identify trends in incidence and prevalence of occupational injuries, deaths, and exposures; establish annual priorities; and develop and disseminate public health recommendations for occupational health interventions to reduce the incidence of work-related injuries and illnesses in Wisconsin.