State-Based Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance in Georgia

描述(由申请人提供)：佐治亚州社区卫生部门提议根据国家职业安全与健康研究所(NIOSH)和州和地区流行病学家委员会(CSTE)推荐的职业健康监测指标，启动职业病、伤害和相关因素的监测。我们将设立一个咨询委员会，成员包括主要伙伴和利益攸关方组织和机构的代表。我们将全面参与以国家为基础的职业监督联盟。利用通过本合作协议提供的资金，DCH 将聘请流行病学家，其主要职责是收集、汇总和报告有关19个职业健康指标的数据。 该系统的操作简单明了，将类似于我们办公室多年来成功开展的其他监视活动。有能力的流行病学家将系统地访问推荐的数据库，收集相关数据，执行基本的描述性流行病学，并在定期、及时的报告中总结信息，包括信息性表格、图表和叙述性文本。这些信息将与咨询委员会和其他利益攸关方分享，并通过例行网站张贴进行传播。 我们的应用的主要目的是建立一个基本的职业健康和安全监测体系。通过提供关于所有19项指标的及时、持续的数据，我们将为向合作伙伴、利益攸关方、政策制定者和公众通报格鲁吉亚职业伤害和疾病致病和死亡的主要原因奠定基础。该州目前没有这个信息库，它将提高人们的认识，并可用于为预防方案提供信息，并指导其优先事项。尽管来自监测系统的信息本身并不能促进工人的安全和健康，但促进工人安全和健康的有效方案必须以良好的监测信息为基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Georgia Department of Community Health proposes to Initiate surveillance for occupational illnesses, injuries, and related factors, based on the indicators for occupational health surveillance that have been recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). We will establish an Advisory Committee including representatives of key partner and stakeholder organizations and agencies. We will participate fully in the Consortium of Occupational State-based Surveillance. With the funds provided through this cooperative agreement, DCH will hire an Epidemiologist-2 whose primary responsibility will be to collect, summarize, and report data on the 19 Occupational Health Indicators. The operation of the system is straightforward and will resemble other surveillance activities our office has performed successfully for years. A capable epidemiologist will systematically access the recommended data bases, collect the relevant data, perform basic descriptive epidemiology, and summarize the information in regular, timely reports that including informative tables, graphs, and narrative text. The information will be shared with the Advisory Committee and other stakeholders and disseminated via routine website posting. The primary aim of our application is to establish a fundamental surveillance system for occupational health and safety. By providing timely, ongoing data on all 19 indicators, we will establish the basis for informing partners, stakeholders, policy makers, and the public about leading causes of morbidity and mortality from occupational injuries and illnesses in Georgia. This information base, presently absent in the state, will increase awareness and can be used to inform prevention programs and guide their priorities. Although the information from a surveillance system per se does not advance worker safety and health, an effective program to advance worker safety and health must be based on the information from good surveillance.