Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project

 描述(由申请人提供)：马里兰州卫生与精神卫生部(DHMH)与其他州机构和非政府组织合作，寻求创建一个扩大的职业健康和安全监测项目(OHSSP)，重点放在三个总体项目上：(1)改进和扩大前一个项目期报告的职业健康指标(OHIs)，包括创造更多机会在各种环境中使用职业健康指标，以改善马里兰州工人的健康和安全结果；(2)在职业健康和安全监测项目内重新建立死亡评估、控制和评估(FACE)计划，以改善与职业死亡相关的数据；以及(3)解决处方止痛药在国家职业健康和安全方面的潜在作用的问题，并开展一个项目， 重点是改进数据(包括国家新的处方药监测计划)，并通过教育在线培训计划利用这些数据和其他数据。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In partnership with other State agencies and non-governmental organizations, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) seeks to create an expanded Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project (OHSSP), focused on three overall projects: (1) improving and expanding the occupational health indicators (OHIs) reported in the previous project period, including creating more opportunities to use the occupational health indicators in a variety of settings to improve health and safety outcomes for workers in Maryland; (2) re-establishing a fatality assessment, control and evaluation (FACE) program within the Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project to improve data related to occupational fatalities; and (3) addressing the issue of the potential role of prescription pain medication in occupational health and safety in the State, with a project that focuses on improving data (including the State's new Prescription Drug Monitoring Program) and utilizing those and other data with an educational online training program.