Standardizing industrial hygiene data collection forms used by workers' compensation insurers.

ABSTRACT: Workers' compensation (WC) insurers collect large amounts of industrial hygiene (IH) data in the United States. The data collected is not easily accessible for research or surveillance purposes. Individual WC insurers are using computerized systems to standardize and store the IH data, leaving a gap in standardization among the different WC insurers. This study sought to standardize IH data collection among WC insurers and to determine the feasibility of pooling collected IH data. IH air and noise survey forms were collected from WC insurers. Data fields on the forms were evaluated for importance and a study list of core fields was developed. The core study list was presented to an IH review panel for review before finalization. The final core study list was compared to recommendations pub

SUBMITTER: Babik KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755662 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature