OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY NETWORK (OHSN)

OHSN is a new voluntary and secure electronic occupational safety and health surveillance system developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first version of OHSN is limited to the healthcare sector (Healthcare Sector Component), but we envision that OHSN will be expanded to other industry sectors in the future.

The initial OHSN Healthcare Sector Component focuses on non-infectious occupational safety and health issues among healthcare personnel (HCP), starting with three HCP Traumatic Injury Modules. OHSN provides tools for healthcare facilities to submit the occupational health data they already collect in a format that allows them to benchmark their illness and injury rates with other OHSN participants.

Purposes of OHSN:

Serve as a surveillance resource for U.S. workplaces
Analyze and report workplace-specific and aggregate data to illustrate the magnitude of injury and illness events among workers and to monitor trends in these events
Provide a library of resources for prevention of injury and illness events specific to the healthcare sector

Benefits to Workplaces Participating in OHSN:

Ability to benchmark a workplace’s internal rates and trends against aggregate data from similar workplaces
Ability to assess the impact of prevention efforts on occupational health and safety over time
More info on benefits of participating

Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN)

About OHSN
Concept for OHSN, Purposes of OHSN, Benefits of participation in OHSN, Data Security, How data will be used

Healthcare Personnel Traumatic Injury Modules
Why OHSN is starting with the healthcare sector

Examples of OHSN Output
Sample tables and charts based on sample data

Resources and Related Links
NIOSH publications, Related NIOSH resources, Other CDC resources, External links

Plan for Data Transmission
Options for Transmitting Data to OHSN, OHSN Data Elements

Standard Data Elements
Worker information, General event/incident information, Supplemental information for STF, WPV, and PHM events, Standard value sets, Denominator data

Project Updates and Contact Information
Stakeholder meetings, Project status, News from software vendors

Enrollment
Submit the form to start the Enrollment process