Occupational exposure monitoring data collection, storage, and use among state-based and private workers' compensation insurers.

ABSTRACT: Despite substantial financial and personnel resources being devoted to occupational exposure monitoring (OEM) by employers, workers' compensation insurers, and other organizations, the United States (U.S.) lacks comprehensive occupational exposure databases to use for research and surveillance activities. OEM data are necessary for determining the levels of workers' exposures; compliance with regulations; developing control measures; establishing worker exposure profiles; and improving preventive and responsive exposure surveillance and policy efforts. Workers' compensation insurers as a group may have particular potential for understanding exposures in various industries, especially among small employers. This is the first study to determine how selected state-based and private workers' c

SUBMITTER: Shockey TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672207 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature