State-Based Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance in Georgia

描述（由申请人提供）：格鲁吉亚社区卫生部建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理事会（CSTE）推荐的职业健康监测指标，启动对职业病、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。我们将充分参与国家职业监测联合会。通过该合作协议提供的资金，DCH 将聘请一名流行病学家-2，其主要职责是收集、总结和报告19项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执行的其他监视活动。一个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，进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共享，并通过例行网站发布予以传播。 我们申请的主要目的是建立一个基本的职业健康和安全监督系统。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、决策者和公众通报格鲁吉亚职业伤害和疾病发病率和死亡率的主要原因奠定基础。这个信息库，目前在该州缺乏，将提高认识，并可用于通知预防方案和指导其优先事项。虽然来自监督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计划必须基于良好监督的信息。

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.