Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention (SHARP) Research for Safe Work
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L&I links
- The A-Z Topic Index provides an alphabetical topic index of safety- and health-related information.
- The Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Web site summarizes Washington State fatality data and investigations.
- Salud y seguridad es sitio Web de Division of Safety and Health (DOSH) en Español (DOSH's Web site in Spanish).
- Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).
- DOSH's Ergonomics site provides a background to the science of ergonomics, describes rulemaking activities in Washington State, and provides information and resources.
- DOSH's Hazard Alerts are descriptions of workplace hazards that are of particular interest in Washington State.
- DOSH's Safety & Health Core Rules site provides the basic safety and health rules needed by most employers in Washington State.
- DOSH's Training section provides information on workplace safety and health issues; including online presentations and courses, online videos, a video library, online publications, and links to more information.
Occupational links
- The Occupational Chemical Database (www.osha.gov) from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- The Institute for Work and Health (www.iwh.on.ca).
- The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Database (www.onetcenter.org) of worker attributes and job characteristics.
- NIOSH's work organization measurement tools for research and practice (www.cdc.gov).
- CTD Resource Network, Inc. (www.ctdrn.org): provides educational material related to the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (www.osha.gov): describes OSHA's approach to address musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace, including the strategy to reduce these injuries and illness.
- The Center to Protect Workers' Rights (www.cpwr.com) Web site provides safety and health information focused on the construction industry, including the Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (www.cdc.gov) (eLCOSH) database.
- The Haz-Map (www.haz-map.com) database of hazardous chemicals and occupational diseases.
- Duke's Occupational & Environmental Medicine (dukeoccmed.mc.duke.edu) site is the world wide Web home of the Occ-Env-Med-L mail list and the Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics (AOEC). This site contains many hyperlinks to occupational and environmental medicine sites.
- The Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (www.croetweb.com) (CROET) at Oregon Health Sciences University provides information about their programs and links to other relevant sites.
- The Cornell Ergonomics Web (ergo.human.cornell.edu) provides information on indoor air quality and ergonomics.
- Ergoweb (www.ergoweb.com) is an extensive ergonomics resource on the World Wide Web.
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (www.cdc.gov).
- The National Library of Medicine's TOXNET Databases (toxnet.nlm.nih.gov).
- Occupational Health and Safety resources (www.onlinehealthresources.com) - directory of Occupational Health and Safety related Web sites.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (www.osha.gov).
- Vermont's Safety Information Resources on the InterNet (SIRI) (hazard.com) contains extensive occupational and environmental safety and health information.
- NIOSHTIC2 (www.cdc.gov) - The NIOSH resource database.
- OSHA's Statistics & Data site (www.osha.gov) provides access to OSHA's compiled inspection data.
Environmental links
- The Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry's (www.atsdr.cdc.gov) (ATSDR) site provides detailed information about the agency. ATSDR's Science Pages (www.atsdr.cdc.gov) provide extensive toxicological data on environmental chemicals.
- Department of Energy's (DOE) home page (www.energy.gov) and the Office of Environmental Management (www.em.doe.gov) (OEM) provide useful environmental information.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) home page (www.epa.gov) is the starting point for finding this agency's extensive environmental Web-offerings. Favorite sub-pages include Region 10's site (www.epa.gov), the National Online Library System (www.epa.gov), the Technology Transfer Network (www.epa.gov), OSWER's (www.epa.gov), and ORD's (www.epa.gov) home pages.
- EXTOXNET publishes Pesticide Information Profiles (extoxnet.orst.edu).
- The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services publishes Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets (web.doh.state.nj.us).
- The University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (depts.washington.edu) provides extensive environmental information, including a home page for their library (depts.washington.edu).
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