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 Occupational Health |
Selected nature of injury/illness and event or exposure categories with the highest number of nonfatal cases involving days away from work:
Public Sector: New Jersey’s public sector workers experienced 1,000 more work-related injuries and illnesses in 2007 (30,400) than in the prior year. The incidence rate of 7.7 cases per 100 workers for New Jersey’s public sector increased slightly from 7.6 in 2006. However, the 2007 rate is still five percent less than the 2005 rate of 8.1 cases. The overall state government incidence rate (6.6) was four percent lower in 2007 than the prior year. This is the lowest incidence rate recorded for New Jersey's State Government sector since 1993, when public sector data was first collected as part of the BLS cooperative program. Transportation and warehousing had the highest state government incidence rate in 2006 (13.1), but an 18 percent over-the-year reduction in the rate meant that two other industries within state government became the sectors with the highest rates of workplace injuries and illnesses. Health care and social assistance had a total cases incidence rate of 12.9 in 2007, while state government construction saw an incidence rate increase of 31 percent between 2006 and 2007, to 12.3 cases per 100 full-time workers in 2007. The total number of injury and illness cases in local government was 1,400 higher in 2007 compared with 2006, leading to an incidence rate (8.2). New Jersey’s local government sector includes county and municipal paid workers as well as volunteer firefighters. SOURCE:1 New Department of Health & Senior Services, Occupational Health Service, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries,2 New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. NJ Occupational Health Indicators
SOURCES: 1Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2NJDHSS Hospital Discharge Data, 3NJDHSS ABLES Registry, 4NJDHSS Cancer Registry, 5NJDLWD Division of Workers’ Compensation, 6National Academy of Social Insurance.. NJ Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) Annual Reports These reports summarize the characteristics of fatal occupational injuries in New Jersey.
For copies of reports issued from 1992-1996, please contact the Occupational Health Surveillance Program at (609) 984-1863. Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses provides comprehensive statistics on work related injuries and illnesses in New Jersey. The Survey, conducted by the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, is designed to provide an essential tool for promoting efforts to make New Jersey’s workplaces safer and healthier. U.S. Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Department of Health and Senior Services P. O. Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360 Phone: (609) 292-7837 Toll-free in NJ: 1-800-367-6543 Our Locations |
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Last Modified: Wednesday, 07-Oct-09 15:06:03 |
Occupational health indicators provide a snapshot of the health of workers in New Jersey. These indicators can be used by states to track work-related adverse health effects and their causes. By using these indicators New Jersey and other states can gain information about their population's health status with respect to workplace factors that can influence the health of an individual. The indicators are intended to bring consistency to time-trend analyses and comparisons of occupational health status among states and to inform program and policy development at the national, state, and local levels to protect worker safety and health.