"This review provides a comprehensive international evidence-based review of methods and systems used to measure occupational disease and injury (excluding New Zealand) and assess the ability of surveillance systems to measure changes in work methods and work organisation. The method involved a literature review and survey of existing approaches.
The workplace is a significant and consistent contributor to injuries and illness and associated fatalities. Worker health is therefore fundamental to public health and to a healthy and productive society. Tracking systems form the cornerstone of injury and illness surveillance. Surveillance systems involve the ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of information so that appropriate preventive action may be taken. Occupational surveillance systems have undeniable value and hold considerable potential for prevention approaches. However, most current systems rely on an unsatisfactory patchwork of data and systems."

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