NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SUPPLEMENT

Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities Occupations

These charts summarize the 2010 NHIS-OHS data for the Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities industries by job type in an effort to provide industry leaders with information so they can better understand health and exposure burdens specific to their workforce.

Survey Sample

In the 2010 NHIS-OHS, the sample of those employed in the Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities industries consisted of 854 persons, representing approximately 7.6 million workers. The charts linked below show the prevalence (rates) of selected health outcomes; work organization and psychosocial factors; and physical and chemical exposures among workers in the Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities industries.  All Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities workers are compared to all U.S. workers combined, and comparisons are made among 18 specific Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities occupational categories.

Charts

• Description of Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities sector
  • Table A. Number of workers in specific industries
  • Table B. Number of workers by job type
• All industry sectors vs. the Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities sector
  • Figure 1. Selected health conditions; work organization factors; and psychosocial, physical and chemical exposures
• Health conditions
  • Figure 2.Dermatitis in the past 12 months
  • Figure 3. Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Figure 4. Asthma
• Work organization factors
  • Figure 5. Long work hours
  • Figure 6. Non-standard work arrangements
  • Figure 7. Temporary employment
  • Figure 8. Non-standard shifts
• Psychosocial exposures
  • Figure 9. Job insecurity
  • Figure 10. Work-family imbalance
  • Figure 11. Hostile work environments
• Physical and chemical exposures
  • Figure 12. Potential skin hazards at work among U.S. adults who worked in the past 12 months, by Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities occupational category, 2010
  • Figure 13. Outdoor work
  • Figure 14. Vapors, gas, dust, or fumes
  • Figure 15a. Secondhand smoke
    • Figure 15b. Smoking rates

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