Research and Training and Education in OHS.

摘要

AOEC provided the following activities which improved education, expertise and awareness of the field of occupational health and safety. A. Educational Outreach: 1. Developed OHS educational programs based on needs assessments conducted by AOEC members and others with an emphasis on National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) objectives and health promotion activities. 2. Provided OHS educational outreach by disseminating information and conducting educational activities to both OHS professionals and to primary care practitioners, with emphasis on those providing medical care and OHS services to medically under-served populations. 3. Increased awareness of OHS among professionals in early training (medical students, nurses, industrial hygienists and others) and subsequently fostering recruitment into the field. 4. Acted as liaison between NIOSH personnel and the OHS community to increase participation and collaboration in health hazard evaluations and other activities of interest to both parties. B. Occupational Health and Safety Information Sharing: 1. Fostered rapid communication and dissemination of information in a worldwide OHS community by supporting and enhancing the OEM List, an internet mail list server that has over 4,000 direct subscribers in over 60 countries. 2. Expanded a network of occupational health clinics with the capacity to respond to requests for assistance from individuals, state, local and federal agencies and others. 3. Enhanced and maintained a web site with information regarding OHS resources, with the capacity to provide access to the products developed in this work, including downloadable educational materials, surveillance data and related projects, and information resources relevant to the broader community of occupational health practice. C. Surveillance: 1. Increased surveillance capacity for occupational illnesses and injuries by collecting, analyzing, and sharing data from AOEC member clinics. 2. Improved the quality of occupational disease surveillance by AOEC and other systems by maintaining and updating a clinically usable exposure coding system.