# Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project

> **NIH ALLCDC U60** · MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH · 2024 · $200,000

## Abstract

Maryland Department of Health
 FOA: PAR-20-312
State Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance Surveillance Program (U60)
Maryland Title: Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project
 CFDA: 93.262
1. SPECIFIC AIMS
 In this proposal, the Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance project of the
Maryland Department of Health (OHSSP) builds on the success of the prior projects, which have
demonstrated the feasibility and utility of incorporating industry and occupation in various existing state
surveillance systems, provided data on injury and illness through existing occupational health indicators,
and identified important gaps in occupational safety and health data in specific worker populations
(notably, migrant workers). The new proposal focuses on this underserved population with an
innovative approach that looks at an important health condition (asthma) in its totality, seeking
opportunities to pair existing health department activities on home visiting and asthma trigger reduction
with a new complementary approach to employers to identify and reduce triggers in the workers’
occupational and home environments as a continuum. Finally, the new proposal includes and expanded
project that builds on work from the previous project period, to address the state’s opioid crisis as it
occurs in Maryland workplaces, with an innovative project that is developing toolkits for employers and
other stakeholders to improve management of opioids in Maryland workplaces. The current proposal
advances that work, completing the toolkits, conducting outreach and technical assistance to implement
the toolkits throughout the State, and an evaluation of the impacts of the toolkits on workplace policies
and management practices. The specific aims of the project are:
 1. Advance occupational epidemiology public health research in occupational health through
 continued production of existing OHIs from existing sources of data and expansion of data
sources;
 2. Broaden the utility of other state surveillance systems by the inclusion of industry and
 occupation in the Maryland Violent Death Reporting System (MVDRS), the State Unintentional
 Drug Overdose Reporting System, the Maryland Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
 (BRFSS), and the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and/or electronic
 health records;
 3. Enhance the use of data to inform prevention activities in MDH and external stakeholders
 through increased outreach and prevention activities; and
 4. Provide focus on improvement of respiratory disease in migrant workers through an innovative
 collaboration with local health departments, employers, and health care providers, focused on
 the worker’s total environment.
 5. Improve surveillance of opioids in the workplace through the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance
 System (BRFSS), State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS), and the
 Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10881629
- **Project number:** 5U60OH011154-08
- **Recipient organization:** MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Clifford S Mitchell
- **Activity code:** U60 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $200,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10881629

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10881629, Maryland Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Project (5U60OH011154-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10881629. Licensed CC0.

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