Illness and Injury Surveillance Program Organization

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identify groups that may be at increased risk of occupationally related illness or injury. In

this manner, the program identifies opportunities for interventions that reduce or eliminate

risks to worker health. Illness and injury surveillance also provides a means by which the

effectiveness of these corrective actions can be evaluated.

While the identity of individual workers is protected, illness and injury surveillance

undertakes regular and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data on illness

and injury in the DOE workforce in order to:

a. Determine the rates of illness and injury among workers,

b. Identify increases in the risk of disease among workers,

c. Provide information in response to questions from workers, medical staffs, Safety

and Health management, labor, and others about possible occupational health effects,

and

d. Identify areas in which further investigation or studies should be initiated.

The program provides health information about the DOE contractor and subcontractor labor

force, for Headquarters and field management, administrators, medical staffs, and labor

groups, and facilitates timely response to health concerns raised by any of these affected

groups.

3.2 Illness and Injury Surveillance Program Organization

The Office of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs at DOE Headquarters is responsible

for establishing the IISP and setting policy and standards for the program. The Program is

coordinated by the program manager with technical assistance provided by the IISP Data

Center staff at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). The Office of

Illness and Injury Prevention Programs is also responsible for the analysis and interpretation

of the Program's data and the generation of final reports based on these analyses. The

program manager works with analysts at the Data Center and site staff to identify areas in

which further investigation might be needed.