Workplace Health and Safety

NOTE: Statistics are based on most recent available information.

• NJ Occupational Health Indicators
• Workplace Fatalities
• Silicosis
• Work-Related Asthma

• Lead Poisoning in New Jersey Firing Range Workers
• What’s Your Catch? - Dangers in dredging old bombs from the New Jersey ocean floor
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• Workplace Fatalities Involving Multiple Victims [pdf 358k]
• Fatalities Among NJ Workers Less Than 25 Years Old [pdf 769k]
• Hispanics Workplace Fatalities: English [pdf 629k]  Spanish [pdf 635k]

• NJ Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII)
• BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics): Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities
• CSTE (Occupational Health Indicators)
• NJ SHAD (State Health Assessment Data): NJDOH health indicators system
• OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that surveillance systems of emergent diseases and other disease conditions need to include occupation and industry information to protect workers, prioritize public health strategies, and mitigate transmission in the workplace. A national effort has been initiated to help expand currently available data sources to collect workplace information. Based on this national effort, the NJDOH Occupational Health Surveillance Unit has worked to expand NJ sources of data to capture workplace information and bridge the current gap of putting data into action.

As a part of this effort, a short training video was developed for staff conducting case follow-up to help improve their collection of industry and occupation data, and is available here: https://youtu.be/CFYDXaBbBm4.

If you have any additional questions, please send an e-mail to the Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance Program: EOHSP@doh.nj.gov.