The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) holds that continued progress in occupational health requires a comprehensive and integrated approach that protects and promotes worker health through effective prevention, analysis, intervention, and surveillance efforts. NHPHA, therefore, supports:

• Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers both in and outside of the workplace;
• Prevention of injury and illness caused by working conditions;
• Practice of primary prevention in eliminating or reducing occupational exposures to hazardous substances (i.e. substitution and engineering controls);
• Accurate monitoring, analysis, and reporting of occupational exposure, disease, and injury along with evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions.  
• Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining for safety and health protection; and
• Social equity (respect, well-being, quality of life) and the support of a living wage (the amount adult wage earners take home sufficient to meet basic needs).

Resources:

Chikotas, N.E., C.  Parks, and K. Olszewski.  “Occupational safety and health objectives of Healthy People 2010:  A Systematic Approach for Occupational Health Nurses--Part I,” American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 55:2 (February 2007) 65-72.

Fell-Carlson, D.  and S. Cohn.  “Rewarding Safe Behavior:  Strategies for Change,” American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 52: 12 (December 2004) 521-527.

Strasser, Patricia, Joyce Hood, and Michael Laranaga.  Employee Health Surveillance in the Health Care Industry,” American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal 55:10 (October 2007) 423-431.

US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, “NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards,” DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2005-149 (September 2005), http://www.cdc.gov/nio...fs/2005-149.pdf.