3446.0 Future of occupational health and safety: Talking heads and OHS advocates

Monday, October 31, 2011: 4:30 PM
Roundtable
This session will feature brief presentations by senior officials of US federal worker health and safety agencies, including OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH. The speakers will discuss current agency policy and research initiatives, efforts to reduce occupational health disparities, and advance worker rights and protections.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to: (1) list the regulatory and research priorities of the federal agencies responsible for worker health and safety; and (2) describe the practices and opportunities for inter-agency collaboration on worker health and safety initiatives.
Moderator:
Tim Morse, PhD, CPE

Table 1
“OSHA's forty years' –Learning from the past and future directions”
David Michaels, PhD, MPH
Table 2
MSHA Update
Gregory R. Wagner, MD
Table 3
NIOSH Update
John Howard, PhD
Table 4
CSB Update
Rafael Eraso-Moure, PhD

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

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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