Characterizing emergency department patients who reported work‐related injuries and illnesses

Abstract

The study did not identify underreporting issues and revealed that medical records data may not be appropriate for assessing underreporting. Additional research is needed to examine workplace characteristics that encourage injury and illness reporting. Am. J. Ind. Med. 59:610-620, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Reported work‐related injuries and illnesses among Hispanic workers: Results from an emergency department surveillance system follow‐back survey

“…In addition, we recognize that respondents who were unable to speak English well enough to complete our study questionnaire in English have the potential to experience unique barriers to reporting workplace injuries and illnesses. Consequently, the data were analyzed separately, with the Spanish results being presented here and the English results presented in another manuscript (Bhandari et al, ). The follow‐back study protocol was approved by the NIOSH Institutional Review Board.…”

“…The results from those who chose to complete the survey in Spanish are reported here. The results from respondents who completed the survey in English are reported by Bhandari et al ().…”

Using emergency department surveillance data to assess occupational injury and illness reporting by workers

“…However, we could not assess the degree to which all work‐related cases were identified nor could we assess if the reported injuries and illnesses were recorded on OSHA logs and reported in SOII. Detailed results of the Congressional study are being released concurrently with this article [Bhandari et al, ; Tonozzi et al, ] while the results from the Barriers study may be released at a later date.…”

“…This article describes the methodology used to design and conduct the two studies. Detailed results from one of these studies are being released concurrently with this article [Bhandari et al, ; Tonozzi et al, ].…”

OSHA, well past its infancy, but still learning how to count injuries and illnesses

“…Given the limited changes made to the approach to counting non‐fatal injuries in response to the 1987 NRC review and studies highlighting the incompleteness of the BLS data, concern about underreporting in the BLS employer‐based survey led to congressional hearings and, in 2009, appropriations to fund research to determine the cause for the underestimate. The three publications in this issue of AJIM from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are some of the studies funded from this appropriation [Bhandari et al, ; Marsh et al, ; Tonozzi et al, ]. AJIM has previously published studies conducted in California, Massachusetts, and Washington, which were also funded by BLS from the same appropriation [Boden, ; Davis et al, ; Joe et al, ; Wuellner and Bonauto, ].…”