Jim manages a manufacturing plant that makes office furniture using plywood and other engineered wood products. Their worksite takes worker safety seriously, and is interested to know if the rate of severe injuries they are experiencing is high compared to injuries occurring at other office furniture manufacturing plants. This kind of information may be tricky to find, but in a search, he stumbles across the Worker Health Charts (WHC), a data visualization tool created by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that pulls from workplace safety and health data sets. Using Worker Health Charts, Jim is able to create graphic charts to visually show rates, distribution, and trends of work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
Jim starts by selecting from a list of data sources or topics, including: