Health Topics

Occupational Health

Health information topics about Occupational Health:

Coping

    1. Sick and Tired of Waking Up Sick and Tired? (Shift
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/drowsy_driving1/human/drows_driving/...

    2. Wake Up Call for the Whole Family (Shift Work Fami
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/drowsy_driving1/human/drows_driving/...

    3. Tips for Shift Workers: How to Eat, Sleep and Stay
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ01388

Dictionaries/Glossaries

    1. Occupational Safety and Health Definitions
    Bureau of Labor Statistics
    http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshdef.htm

Directories

    1. State Workers' Compensation Officials
    Dept. of Labor
    http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/owcp/wc.htm

    2. OSHA Regional and Area Offices
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/html/RAmap.html

    3. NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html

    4. Emergency Preparedness for Business: Emergency Con
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/prepared/prepared_contact.html

Law and Policy

    1. Worker Safety and Training
    Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/worker.htm

    2. Access to Medical and Exposure Records
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3110.pdf

    3. Anxiety in the Workplace
    Anxiety Disorders Association of America
    http://www.adaa.org/AnxietyDisorderInfor/workplace.cfm

    4. Workers' Page
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/index.html

    5. Workers Have a Right to Know
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=23038

    6. Employment Law Guide: Occupational Safety and Heal
    Dept. of Labor
    http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form?p_doc_type=OSHACT&p_toc...

Organizations

    1. American Industrial Hygiene Association

    http://www.aiha.org/

    2. National Toxicology Program

    http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/

    3. Dept. of Labor

    http://www.dol.gov/

    4. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    http://www.osha.gov/

    5. Rehabilitation Services Administration

    http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/rsa/

    6. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Hea

    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

Overviews

    1. Job Safety and Health
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/jobsafetyandhealth-factsheet....

    2. Tox Town
    National Library of Medicine
    http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

Prevention/Screening

    1. Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention: Frequently Aske
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/faq/faq.html

    2. What Is Personal Protective Equipment?
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/ppe-factsheet.pdf

    3. Silicosis: Learn the Facts!
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-108/

    4. Save Your Skin
    Center to Protect Workers' Rights
    http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0200/d000280/d000280.html

    5. Preventing Back Pain at Work and at Home
    American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
    http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=130&topcategory=Spi...

    6. How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=23033

    7. Histoplasmosis-Protecting Workers at Risk
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2005-109/

    8. Working Safely with Chemicals
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33325

    9. Health Hazard Evaluations
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/

    10. Your Safety 1st: Railroad Crossing Safety for Emer
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-121/pdfs/2003-121.pdf

    11. Eye Safety: Emergency Response and Disaster Recove
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/eyesafe.html

    12. Eye Safety at Work: Shield Yourself from Injury
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=WL00028

    13. Choose the Hearing Protection That's Right fo
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/abouthlp/chooseprotection.html

    14. There's No Place Like Home for Workplace Safe
    American Industrial Hygiene Association
    http://www.aiha.org/GovernmentAffairs-PR/html/OOhome.htm

Rehabilitation/Recovery

    1. Returning to Work after an Injury
    American Occupational Therapy Association
    http://www.aota.org/featured/area6/links/link02ac.asp

    2. Returning to Work After an Injury: Rehabilitation
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=WL00042

Related Issues

    1. Alcohol Alert: Alcohol and the Workplace
    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa44-text.htm

    2. Workplace Violence
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/factsheet-workplace-violence....

    3. West Nile Virus
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/westnile/

    4. Smoking and the Workplace
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=23036

    5. Office Building Occupant's Guide to Indoor Ai
    Environmental Protection Agency, Indoor Environments Division
    http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/occupgd.html

    6. Natural Disaster Recovery: Cleanup Hazard
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/cleanupHazard.html

    7. Do I Work in a Sick Building?
    American Industrial Hygiene Association
    http://www.aiha.org/GovernmentAffairs-PR/html/OOsick.htm

    8. Anthrax eTools: Protecting the Worksite from Terro
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/anthrax/index.html

    9. Amputations
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/amputation-factsheet.pdf

Research

    1. Sleep and Safety
    National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
    http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/sleep/res_plan/section4/section4d.html...

Specific Conditions

    1. What Is Your Risk of Getting AIDS or Hepatitis B o
    American Liver Foundation
    http://www.liverfoundation.org/cgi-bin/dbs/articles.cgi?db=articles&uid=def...

    2. Occupational Asthma: Wheezing at Work
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ01140

    3. Biological Hazards in Sewage and Wastewater Treatm
    Center to Protect Workers' Rights
    http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0200/d000283/d000283.html

    4. Breathing Hazards at Work
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=23032

    5. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf

    6. Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents
    National Library of Medicine
    http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/

    7. Lyme Disease in Construction
    Center to Protect Workers' Rights
    http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0100/d000001/d000001.html

    8. Occupational Cancer
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/cancer/

    9. Occupational Lung Disease
    American Lung Association
    http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35334

    10. Reproductive Hazards
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/reproductivehazards/

    11. Skin Problems in Construction
    Center to Protect Workers' Rights
    http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0100/d000027/d000027.html

    12. Solvents in Construction
    Center to Protect Workers' Rights
    http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0100/d000017/d000017.html

    13. Stress at Work
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html

    14. Beryllium Disease
    National Jewish Medical and Research Center
    http://www.nationaljewish.org/medfacts/beryllium_medfact.html

    15. Lead (in the Workplace)
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/lead/index.html

Statistics

    1. New Edition of Lung Disease Data Report Updates Re
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/worldre02.html

    2. FASTATS: Occupational Health
    National Center for Health Statistics
    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/osh.htm

    3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Injuries, Illnesses, a
    Bureau of Labor Statistics
    http://www.bls.gov/iif/

Teenagers

    1. Making Sure Your Teen's Job Is Safe
    Nemours Foundation
    http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/travel/job.html

    2. Preventing Deaths, Injuries and Illnesses of Young
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-128/2003128.htm

    3. Teen Worker Safety in Restaurants
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    http://www.osha.gov./SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html

    4. Working Safely: Advice for Teens
    American Academy of Family Physicians
    http://familydoctor.org/454.xml

Treatment

    1. Work Injuries
    National Center for Farmworker Health
    http://www.ncfh.org/pateduc/en-work.htm

Women

    1. Women's Safety and Health Issues at Work
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/women/

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