NIOSH Data and Statistics Gateway

Data are fundamental to worker safety and health research and surveillance conducted at NIOSH. The data produced and used by NIOSH can also benefit other researchers and practitioners as well as the general public. This NIOSH Data and Statistics page provides centralized access to select NIOSH data sets.

Systems that provide information about NIOSH investigations, products, hazards, and a variety of tests and measurements.

Investigations

• Engineering and Physical Hazards Reports – NIOSH conducts research on engineering control solutions for reducing exposures to air contaminants and on physical hazards such as noise and musculoskeletal hazards. This database has reports from laboratory research, walkthrough (or preliminary) surveys, and in-depth field surveys.
• Engineering Controls Reports – Central repository of current NIOSH information on engineering control technology, summarized from previously published NIOSH research findings
• Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluations (FACE) Program – NIOSH FACE Program and State FACE Programs study fatal workplace injuries and prepare reports with recommendations to prevent similar deaths.
• Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program – Conducts independent investigations of firefighter line-of-duty deaths and recommends ways to prevent deaths and injuries.
• Health Hazard Evaluations – Helps employees, unions, and employers learn whether health hazards are present at their workplace and recommends ways to reduce hazards and prevent work-related illness.

Hazards

• Emergency Response Safety and Health Database – Contains accurate and concise information on high-priority chemical, biological and radiological agents that could be encountered by personnel responding to a terrorist event.
• International Chemical Safety Cards (WHO/IPCS/ILO) – Data sheets that provide essential safety and health information concisely. The ICSC project is a joint effort of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), with the cooperation of the European Commission.

• Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health Values (IDLH) – Values developed by NIOSH that represent the concentration of a chemical in the air to which healthy adult workers could be exposed (if their respirators fail) without suffering permanent or escape-impairing health effects.

• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) – Informs workers, employers, and occupational health professionals about workplace chemicals and their hazards. The NPG gives general industrial hygiene information for hundreds of chemicals/classes.
• Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards – Summarizes information on permissible exposure limits, chemical and physical properties, and health hazards.
• Skin Notation Profiles – Hazard warnings used worldwide to alert workers and employers to the health risks of skin exposures to chemicals in the workplace

Product Information

• Certified Equipment List (CEL) – Tool to help respirator users determine if the respirator they are currently using or considering using is NIOSH-certified. It can also help you select the appropriate respirator to protect against the hazard(s) you are exposed to and locate correct replacement parts.
• NIOSH-Approved Disposable Particulate Respirators (Filtering Facepieces) – Listing of NIOSH-approved particulate filtering facepiece respirators

Test & Measurements

• Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM) – A curated collection of sampling and analytical methods for workplace exposure monitoring.
• NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ) – Provides an integrated assessment of worker well-being across multiple spheres, including individuals’ quality of working life, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status