Occupational
Health
     
What is Occupational Health?
Each workday in Wisconsin, close to 3 million residents
older than 16 years report to work, and more than 300 occupational
injuries or illnesses will be reported. There are most likely more
injuries or illnesses occurring, but sometimes events go unrecognized
and unreported.
According to the World
Health Organization (exit DHFS), occupational health is the surveillance, promotion and
maintenance of the well-being of workers in all occupations. The
Wisconsin Occupational Health Program works to track and promote
workers' health and work capacity. We do this by measuring
workplace injury, illness and death rates, educating employers and
workers to our findings and suggesting interventions that will improve
the work environment to become more conducive to worker safety and
health.
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Last Revised: October 24, 2008 |
