# Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance Program

> **NIH ALLCDC U60** · WASHINGTON STATE DEPT LAB & INDUST · 2022 · $360,772

## Abstract

Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Wuellner, Sara, E/Bonauto, David, K
Expanded Program Project Summary
 Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of
data regarding a health event for use in public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve
health. State-based occupational safety and health surveillance programs are in a unique position to utilize
state-specific data sources and identify emerging occupational health and safety issues.
 Washington’s research and surveillance actions are based on data, input from multiple advisory groups,
and opportunities to take advantage of emerging interest from the public, press, or others in occupational
safety and health. Data based prioritization of research is influenced by the magnitude, severity, and cost of
conditions proposed for surveillance, such as work-related musculoskeletal disorders and workplace traumatic
injury fatalities. Recognition that many work-related injuries and illnesses are underreported to data systems
factors into surveillance prioritization for occupational disease and occupational exposures (e.g. our proposals
for respiratory disease and for hazardous occupational exposures to lead). Moreover, the burden of
occupational exposures, injuries, and illnesses are not shared equally across the working population with racial
and ethnic minorities likely suffering higher occupational injury and illness rates due to occupational
segregation into higher risk occupations and industries. Finally, there are often data gaps, like identifying
occupational contributions to infectious diseases, which influence our prioritization of surveillance projects.
With these factors in mind, in this research proposal, we intend to do the following:
1. From stakeholder input identify and respond to emerging occupational safety and health issues with data.
2. Complete the CSTE occupational health indicators to describe occupational exposures, injuries, and
 illnesses in Washington.
3. Create an occupational amputations surveillance system. Following creation, use the system to evaluate
 our state OSHA actions to prevent such injuries and streamline a system of improved reporting of
 amputations to regulatory authorities.
4. Lead efforts to improve industry and occupation coding on notifiable infectious diseases and identify
 workplace infectious disease clusters.
5. Continue Washington’s ABLES program and evaluate changes to the workplace lead exposure policies.
6. Implement expanded program surveillance projects, addressing fatal occupational injuries, work-related
 musculoskeletal disorders, occupational respiratory disease, and identifying racial and ethnic disparities in
 occupational injury and illness rates.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10463533
- **Project number:** 5U60OH008487-17
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON STATE DEPT LAB & INDUST
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID K BONAUTO
- **Activity code:** U60 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $360,772
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10463533

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10463533, Washington Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance Program (5U60OH008487-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10463533. Licensed CC0.

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