5068.0 Workplace Violence, Disaster and War-related Occupational Health and Safety

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 8:30 AM
Oral
This session will discuss new information regarding current activities of NIEHS worker education and training program. The session will also discuss workplace violence in nursing personnel, and young worker's personal safety on the job. It will also discuss work-related fatal injuries from disasters and self reported injuries and neurological symptoms among military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lastly, the session will include information about community-partnered response to IPV.
Session Objectives: 1. Learn about the current activities undertaken by the NIEHS WETP and their awardees in preparing workers involved in emergency response and recovery efforts for avian influenza 2. Describe independent variables associated with WPV and potential mediators and moderators of WPV such as social support and workplace response 3. Recognize the extent to which young workers are reporting threats to their personal safety while on the job.
Moderator:
Jeffrey V. Johnson, PhD

8:30 AM
New York State Workplace Violence Prevention Program: OHIP Project -- Kelly Flannery, RN, BSN
     
8:45 AM
Being Proactive: Current activities of the NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program and its program awardees in preparing first responders and disaster recovery workers for avian influenza
Deborah L. Weinstock, MS, Joseph Hughes, Mark D. Catlin, BS BA, John S. Morawetz and Xanthia James, MPH
     
9:00 AM
Workplace Violence in Nursing Personnel: Findings from the Safe at Work Time I Survey
Sheila T. Fitzgerald, PhD, RN, Michele Bracken, MSN, CRNP, Joan Kub, PhD APRN, BC, Richelle Bolyard, MPH, Barbara Fowler, PhD, Jacqueline Agnew, PhD, RN, FAAN and Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
  
9:15 AM
Work-related fatal injuries from disasters
Gregory M. Fayard, MPH
  
9:30 AM
Self-reported injuries and neurological symptoms among military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan: Associations between injury mechanism, immediate post-injury symptoms, and persistent symptoms
Aaron Schneiderman, PhD, MPH, RN, Elisa R. Braver, PhD and Han K. Kang, DrPH
        
9:45 AM
Community-parntered response to IPV: Characterizing organizational culture towards IPV
Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, Marc Weinstein, PhD, Helen Moss, Instructor, Tina Bloom, RN, MS and Sara Mostafavi
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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