Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
In collaboration with
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Putting Data to Work:
Occupational Health Indicators from
Thirteen Pilot States for 2000
October 2005
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) within
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are pleased to present the results of the pilot of CSTE’s Occupational Health Indicators. CSTE would like
to acknowledge the workgroup members for their numerous contributions to this document, namely for collecting data, offering technical advice and prepar-
ing the report. CSTE would also like to thank the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the U.S. Department
of Labor for facilitating state access to data for several of the indicators. This report would not be possible without the cooperation of state health depart-
ments and their federal occupational health partners.
CSTE produced this report with support from Cooperative Agreement # AU60/CCU007277 between CDC and CSTE.
Suggested Citation: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Putting Data to Work: Occupational Health Indicators from Thirteen Pilot States for 2000.
September 2005.
Putting Data to Work: Occupational Health Indicators from Thirteen Pilot States for 2000
Foreword
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) has worked collaboratively with the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) to develop a set of occupational health indicators (OHIs). A good indicator anticipates early problem areas
for attention. Outcomes of a system that utilizes indicators are ably demonstrated in this document, and serves as an important mile-
stone in the progress towards a national system of occupational health surveillance.
Like other public health problems, those in the workplace are preventable.