Kentucky Occupation Safety and Health Surveillance Program
Workplace injuries and illnesses are a major cause for concern for Kentucky workers and are preventable through the development of prevention strategies based on occupational injury and illness surveillance data.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has funded the Kentucky Department for Public Health and the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health to conduct surveillance of fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses.
The goals of the KOSHS program are to:
- Identify worker populations and work environments at risk for occupational injuries and illnesses
- Develop state occupational safety and health data dissemination strategies to reduce Kentucky occupational injuries
The aims of the KOSHS program are to:
- Conduct surveillance of 14 occupational injury and illness indicators
- Establish a statewide consortium to raise awareness of occupational injuries at the local and state levels
- Analyze and disseminate surveillance data to those in a position to effect change
- Develop injury prevention strategies
KOSHS conducts surveillance research on:
- Work-Related Hospitalizations
- Fatal Work Injuries (FACE program)
- Work-Related Amputations
- Work-Related Burns
- Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Workers
- Occupational Motor Vehicle Collisions
- Worker Pneumoconiosis
- Work-Related Pesticide-Associated Illness and Injury
- Worker Malignant Mesothelioma
- Work-Related Lead Poisoning
- KOSHS Annual Report
- Publications
- Presentations
- Related Links
- A Safety Program can make me money????
- Coroners Conference (2003)
- Occupational vs. Non-Occupational Motor Vehicle Fatalities in Kentucky(2003)
- Characterization of Fatal Motor Vehicle Collisions in Kentucky
- Dying While Earning a Living - Occupational Fatalities (2002)
- Occupational Fatalities (1998)
- Occupational Fatalities (1994-1997)
- Agricultural Fatalities
- Occupational Fatalities by Industry(1994-1998)
- Occupational Fatalities (1999)
- Occupational Fatality Summary (2001)
- CSTE 2006
- CSTE 2007
- Domestic Violence and Occupational Homicides
- FACE meeting Survey 2007
- Government Safety Conference 2007
- IMSA
- IPV in the Workplace
- KPHA 2007
- KPHA
- LG & E 2006
- Occupational Falls
- Seeing I to I
For more information relating to KOSHS or FACE, contact:
Terry Bunn
Occupational Injury and Surveillance Programs
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
University of Kentucky
333 Waller Ave., Suite 206
Lexington, KY 40504
Phone: 859-257-4955
FAX: 859-257-3909