National Insitute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is a research agency focused on the study of worker safety and health, and empowering employers and workers to create safe and healthy workplaces. This organization is a part of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It's vision is to have "Safer, Healthier Workers" and it's mission is to "develop new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and to transfer that knowledge into practice.
Specifically, I am blogging on the NIOSH program, Health Hazards Evaluations (HHEs). This program is to help employers and employees recognize and control health hazards in their workplace. The goals of this program is to provide authoritative assistance in evaluating new and recurring workplace health hazards and to raise awareness of recurring workplace health hazards and preventive measures based on health hazard evaluation findings. One great aspect of this program is that it offers occupational medicine residents an opportunity to engage in public health practice through a rotation program. This program allows Occupational medicine residents to have experience in various phases of worksite evaluations.
That rotational program sounds very interesting! Since people spend most of their days at work, they also need to know the goings on in terms of work hazards and methods for which to manage them. Experiencing different phases of worksites can help provide a more comprehensive learning experience with memorable takeaways.
ReplyDeleteI find that the phases and rotation assists with the learning process, we all learn in a variety of ways and settings; therefore, providing a guide to simply read will not help those who need to engage in an activity or learn visually. This is a great program.
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