# Enhancing State-based Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance, Collaboration, Education, and Translation to Reduce Worker-Related Injury and Illness

> **NIH ALLCDC U24** · COUNCIL OF STATE & TERRITORIAL EPIDEM · 2020 · $225,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Work related injuries and illnesses are both common and costly, with approximately 1.5 million
work-related injuries and illnesses costing approximately $250 billion per year. State-based
occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance systems are essential for identifying and
preventing work-related injuries and illnesses. The Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists’ (CSTE) proposed activities will enhance state-based capacity to collect
surveillance data across the 10 National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) sectors and
all seven NORA cross-sectors for workers of all ages. Outcomes will include a greater visibility
of OSH issues, an increase in the state workforce that is able to perform the essential public
health services related occupational health epidemiology, and for more states and tribal nations
to have an effective occupational safety and health surveillance program, and ultimately, a
reduction in workplace exposures, injuries and illness for all NORA sectors/cross-sectors. As
the surveillance initiatives included in this proposal address all NORA sectors, the outcomes
outlined in the proposal support all seven of NORA’s strategic goals as well the NIOSH’s
intermediate goal for its surveillance program (SS 1.1). There are 34 outputs in this proposal,
however many of the outputs include multiple components so the total number of outputs are
appreciably greater. Examples of outputs include: Coordination between CSTE, states, NIOSH
and other partners; Reports, how-to guides and other tools related to Occupational Health
Indicators, which enable states uniformly collect and report on occupational health, illness and
risk data; communication, training and outreach strategies, such as webinars, newsletters and
consultations to disseminate information and best practices; working groups meetings and other
forums for sharing scientific information; and the development of OSH surveillance tools and
technical documents. This proposal supports the NIOSH Research to Practice (r2p) approach
by fostering collaboration among state programs and NIOSH and providing a forum by which
additional research needs are identified, and by translating surveillance data through various
communication and outreach strategies. Additionally, the activities in this proposal will help
educate the state OSH surveillance workforce, which will facilitate more partnerships in each
state to share research findings, data, and educational messages for improvement of health and
safety in workplaces across the U.S.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9978663
- **Project number:** 5U24OH011874-02
- **Recipient organization:** COUNCIL OF STATE & TERRITORIAL EPIDEM
- **Principal Investigator:** KENNETH D ROSENMAN
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $225,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9978663

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9978663, Enhancing State-based Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance, Collaboration, Education, and Translation to Reduce Worker-Related Injury and Illness (5U24OH011874-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9978663. Licensed CC0.

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