Timothy J. Orr1, Brendan D. Macdonald, Stephen R. Iverson, & William R. Hammond HHS/CDC/NIOSH, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mechanical Engineer, 412.386.4403, [email protected]. HHS/CDC/NIOSH, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, Spokane, WA, USA, Mining Engineer, 509.354.8089, [email protected]. HHS/CDC/NIOSH, Office of Mine Safety and Health Research, ...

The National Institute o f Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is dedicated to achieving "safety and health at work for all people — through research and prevention." An important procedure in pursuing this goal is the NIOSH surveillance studies where the number o f injuries are monitored according to demographic, employment, and injury characteristics. These numeric data are then used to id...

INTRODUCTION Large programmatic grants advance the missions of funding agencies or organizations. This article describes the programmatic impact of using "hierarchical" logic models in two Centers funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that were designed to achieve NIOSH goals. Such models are supportive of priority setting, policy implementation, and effecti...

Based on prior mine vehicle studies of operators’ exposure to whole-body vibration, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) evaluated four seat designs on mine haulage vehicles, with regard to roadway-induced jarring/jolting and operator comfort. Investigators collected objective and subjective data from vehicle operators on two existing and two NIOSH ...

This study investigated the ability of the Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation (RNLE) to measure the risk of low back injury as verified by employee health outcomes. In addition, several basic risk factors and combinations of risk factors presumed related to low back disorders were explored. The RNLE was modified to allow analysis of one-handed and two-handed, asymmetric lifts. Predictive performanc...

This clinical epidemiological study will determine if farm workers chronically exposed to organophosphate pesticides (OP) in field work have quantifiable nervous system abnormalities after an exposure season and whether these changes are persistent after a several month period of non-exposure. This cross-sectional study with a follow-up component will compare 50 female orchard farmworkers with ...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Among the various hazards fire fighters face are electrical hazards during wildland fire suppression activities. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reports that 10 fire fighters died from contact with electricity during wildland fires between 1980...