OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY NETWORK (OHSN)

Project Updates

Contact Information

Ahmed Gomaa, MD, ScD, MSPH: 513-841-4337; AGomaa@cdc.gov
Susan Sprigg, RN, BSN: 513-841-4335; Ssprigg@cdc.gov
Sara Luckhaupt, MD, MPH (on detail assignment through September 2012)

Project activities

OHSN Web Site posted March 2012
Release of OHSN Standard Occupational Data Architecture (SODA) - April 2012
Beta testing of the standardized OHSN Excel file and Conversion Tool - Spring/Summer 2012
Enrollment and Training information to be posted on the OHSN web site Summer/Fall 2012

Recent Stakeholder Meetings

NIOSH Educational Research Center of New York/New Jersey Conference
March 30, 2012
New Approaches to Regulations: Ergonomics and PELs

AOHP 2011 National Conference
September 28 – October 1, 2011
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Breakout Session B005, Friday, September 30, 11:00-12:00: NIOSH’s Update on Development of the Occupational Health Safety Network

Upcoming Stakeholder Meetings

Upcoming Stakeholder Meetings
AOHP 2012 National Conference
October 3-6, 2012
Las Vegas, NV

News from software vendors

The following information was published in the Integritas, Inc. Employee Health Newsletter:

Sharing Incident Data with NIOSH

Stix and Agility EHR export utility available in July build

In 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) approached Integritas with a request to provide a way for Stix® and Agility EHR® Employee Health users to share incident data to assist in analyzing statistics for a variety of hospital safety and health issues. Many of our clients have been approached by NIOSH and expressed an interest in participating in this program.

NIOSH is launching a pilot program that will initially focus on capturing statistics for traumatic injuries, specifically grouped into the categories: (1) slips, trips and falls, (2) accidents resulting from patient handling (lifting, pushing, pulling, transporting, etc), and (3) workplace violence. In the future they intend to expand their program to include exposures and other kinds of events.

For the past several months Integritas has worked with NIOSH to help define their data needs, and to develop an export utility that will allow our participating users to gather and produce a file that can then be submitted to NIOSH.

The July build of Agility EHR and Stix now provides the ability to capture the NIOSH event category in each incident, and this new utility for extracting and exporting a file to send to NIOSH. This new export is located in the FileIOP.exe utility program, under a new Special Exports section of the navigation launch pad.

NIOSH will be contacting a select number of you to invite your participation in their pilot project. To participate in this program, you will need to update or upgrade to the July build of Release 10. Please contact Integritas Support to arrange for this upgrade.