Abstract
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is currently planning an ongoing, systematic effort to collect, analyze, interpret, and disseminate data on potential exposures faced by workers in the United States, including physical workplace risk factors. This effort will provide estimates of the number of workers potentially exposed to workplace physical hazards by occupation, process, and industry. It will also describe the nature and distribution of exposure controls, as well as the extent of specific safety and health or specific ergonomic program components. The survey will include approximately 8,000 establishments, representing facilities in all major industry sectors having five or more employees. The Health Services sector (SIC 80) will be surveyed in the first year. Stakeholder meetings will be held in early 2002 to assist NIOSH in identifying health and safety issues, topics of concern, and occupational groups for inclusion in the national survey of Health Services.
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