NOHSAC - National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee - Komiti Tohutohu Mahi A-Motu Hauora me te Haumaru
  

Review of Methods and Systems used to Measure and
Monitor Occupational Disease and Injury in New Zealand

The closing date for this application was 4:00pm on Friday the 7th May 2004 with applicants advised of the result by the 3rd week of May 2004.

This RFP sought to provide a thorough and critical review of methods and systems used to measure and monitor occupational disease and injury in New Zealand.

More specifically, the review addressed the following research questions:

a) What types of methods and systems are currently used to measure and monitor the:

  • prevalence and incidence
  • trends
  • distribution

of occupational disease?

b) What types of methods and systems are currently used to measure and monitor the:

  • prevalence and incidence
  • trends
  • distribution

of occupational injury?

c) What are the strengths, weaknesses and gaps (if any) that exist in methods and systems used for the surveillance of occupational disease and injury in New Zealand?

d) What are the barriers to the effective surveillance of occupational disease and injury in New Zealand?

e) What future plans (if any) are in place to develop/improve individual occupational disease and injury surveillance systems?

f) What surveillance methods and systems in New Zealand currently exist that are able to measure and monitor:

  • changes in work methods
  • changes in work organisation
  • emerging risks?

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