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rom 1981 to 1983, NIOSH conducted the National 

Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES) that collected data on 

potential occupational exposures to chemical, physical, and 

biological agents. The survey involved on-site visits to 4,490 

establishments in 522 industry types [OMB 1972] employing 

approximately 1,800,000 workers in 377 occupational categories 

[Census 1980] . Nearly 13,000 different potential exposure 

agents and over 100,000 unique tradename products were 

observed during these on-site visits . 

Field guidelines, sampling methodology, and an analysis of 

management interview responses have been published [NIOSH 

1988, 1989a, 1989b] . However, the bulk of the data remains 

unpublished . The NOES database has not been updated since 

July 1, 1990. 

Over the years, NOES data have been quoted in numerous 

NIOSH documents, journal articles, and major databases such as 

the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS) 

and the Hazardous Substances _Data Bank (HSDB), Now NIOSH is 

making available a subset of the NOES database in these 

reports: 

. Estimated Numbers of Employees Potentially 

Exposed to Specific Agents by 2-Digit Standard 

Industrial Classification (SIC) 

. Agents Observed in Industries by 2-Digit Standard 

Industrial Classification SIC 

. Estimated Numbers of Employees Potentially 

Exposed to Specific Agents by Occupation 

. Potential Exposures to Agents by Occupation 

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. Agents Rank-Ordered by the__Estimated_Total_ Number 

of-Employees Potentially Exposed to Each Agent 

. Estimated Numbers of Employees Potentially 

Exposed to Specific Agents by Occupation within 2-

Digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 

. Estimated Percentages of Controlled and 

Uncontrolled Potential Exposures to Specific Agents 

by Occupation within 2-Digit Standard Industrial 

Classification (SIC) 

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For more information about the NOES, please call 1-800-35-

NIOSH, e-mail to RYoung_ cdc. ov, or submit a feedback form . 

BEYOND NUES 

The NIOSH Surveillance Strategic Plan calls for the conduct of a 

comprehensive, nationally representative hazard survey . To this 

end, NIOSH is planning to conduct the National Exposures at 

Work Survey (NEWS) in a nationally representative sample of 

workplaces across all industries, starting with the Health Services 

industry . The purpose of the survey will be to collect data about 

exposures to occupational hazards and associated occupational 

groups, use of exposure controls, and management and 

employee health and safety practices . The data collected in the 

NEWS will be available elsewhere on the NIOSH website in the 

future. 

REFERENCES 

Census [1980] . Bureau of the Census alphabetical index to 

industries and occupations, 1980. Washington, DC : U.S . 

Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 

NIOSH [1988] . National occupational exposure survey field 

guidelines. Vol . I . Seta ]A, Sundin DS, Pedersen DH, eds. 

Cincinnati, OH : U .S. Department of Health and Human Services, 

Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No . 88-106. 

NIOSH [1989a] . National occupational exposure survey analysis 

of management interview responses . Vol . III . Pedersen DH, 

Sieber WK, eds. Cincinnati, OH : U .S. Department of Health and 

Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication 

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No. 89-103. 

NIOSH [1989b] . National occupational exposure survey sampling 

methodology . Vol . II . Sieber WK, ed . Cincinnati, OH : U .S . 

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease 

Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 

DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No . 89-102 . 

OMB [1972] . Standard industrial classification manual 1972 . 

Washington, DC : Executive Office of the President, Office of 

Management and Budget, Statistical Policy Division. 

PARTIAL. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS INVOLVING 14CES DATA 

Boden LI, Cabral H [1995] . Company characteristics and 

workplace medical testing . American Journal of Public Health 85 

(8) :1070-1075. 

Behrens VJ, Brackbill RM [1993] . Worker awareness of exposure : 

industries and occupations with low awareness . American Journal 

of Industrial Medicine 23(5) :695-701 . 

Davis RR, Sieber WK [1998] . Trends in hearing protector usage 

in American manufacturing from 1972 to 1989 . American 

Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 59 :715-722. 

de la Hoz R, Young R, and Pedersen D. Exposure to potential 

occupational asthmogens : Data from the National Occupational 

Exposure Survey. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 

31 :195-201 . 

Frazier T [1983] . NIOSH occupational health and hazard 

surveillance systems. Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology 

21 :201-209 . 

Froines J, Wegman D, Eisen E [1989]. VI . Hazard surveillance in 

occupational disease . American Journal of Public Health 79 

(Suppl) :26-31 . 

Greife A, Halperin W, Groce D, O'Brien D, Pedersen D, Myers JR, 

and Jenkins L [1995] . Hazard surveillance : Its role in primary 

prevention of occupational disease and injury . Applied 

Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 10(9) :737-742 . 

Greife A, Young R, Carroll M, Sieber WK, Pedersen D, Sundin D, 

Seta J [1995] . National Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health general industry occupational exposure databases : Their 

structure, capabilities, and limitations . Applied Occupational and 

Environmental Hygiene, 10(4) :264-269. 

Kauppinen T, Toikkanen J, Pedersen D, Young R, Ahrens W, 

Boffetta P, Hansen J, Kromhout H, Blasco JM, Mirabelli D, de la 

Orden-Rivera V, Pannett B, Plato N, Savela A, Vincent R, 

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Kogevinas M [2000] . Occupational exposure to carcinogens in 

the European Union. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 

57:10-18 . 

Morata TC, Dunn DE, Sieber WK [1994] . Occupational exposure 

to noise and ototoxic organic solvents. Archives of Environmental 

Health 49(5) :359-364. 

Murthy LI [1989] . Computer readable data from NIOSH . 

Seminars in Dermatology 8(2) :70-71 . 

Murthy LI [1994] . Introduction . In : LaDou J, ed . Occupational 

health and safety, 2nd ed . Itasca, IL: National Safety Council, 

pp. 3-16. 

Murthy LI [2000] . Growth of occupational health . In : Balge MZ, 

Krieger GR, eds. Occupational health and safety, 3rd ed . 

Chicago, IL : National Safety Council, pp . 3-24. 

Pedersen DH [2000] . Industrial responses to constrained OSHA 

regulation . American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 61 

(3) :381-387 . 

Pedersen DH, Sieber WK [1989] . Some trends in worker access 

to health care in the United States (1974-1983) . American 

Journal of Indusrial Medicine 15 :151-165 . 

Pedersen DH, Young RO, and Rose VE [2001] . Populations at 

risk. In : Bingham E, Cohrssen B, Powell C, eds. Patty's 

toxicology, 5th ed, Vol . VIII . New York, NY : John Wiley, Inc ., pp . 

699-707 . 

Robinson CF, Petersen M, Sieber WK, Palu S, Halperin WE 

[1996] . Mortalitiy of carpenters' union members employed in the 

U .S . construction of wood products industries, 1987-1990 . 

American Journal of Industrial Medicine 30 :674-694. 

Ruder A, Fine L, Sundin D [1990] . National estimates of 

occupational exposure to animal bladder tumorigens . Journal of 

Occupational Medicine 32(9) :797-805 (1990) . 

Seligman PJ, Sieber WK, Pedersen DH, Sundin DS, and Frazier 

TM [1988] . Compliance with OSHA record-keeping requirements . 

American Journal of Public Health 78(8) :1218-1219 . 

Seta JA, Sundin DS [1985] . Trends of a decade - A perspective 

on occupational hazard surveillance, 1970-1983 . Morbidity and 

Mortality Weekly Report 34(2) :15-24 . 

Seta JA, Sundin DS [1989] . Semiconductor industry - A hazard 

surveillance perspective . In : Hazard assessment and control 

technology in semiconductor manufacturing . Chelsea, Michigan : 

Lewis Publishers, pp. 37-46. 

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Seta JA, Young RO, Pedersen DH, Bernstein IL, Bernste i DI 

[1999] . The United States National Occupational Expos re 

Survey (NOES) data base . In : Bernstein IL, Chan-Yeun I M, Malo 

JL, Bernstein DI, eds . Asthma in the workplace, 2nd ed New 

York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp . 721-728. 

Sieber WK, Seta JA, Young RO [1994] . A job exposure matrix for 

identification of potential exposures in occupational se tings . In : 

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on EF idemiology 

in Occupational Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 2 3-25, 

1992 . Cincinnati, OH : U .S . Department of Health and -luman 

Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (r IOSH) 

Publication No . 94-112, pp. 351-356 . 

Sundin DS, Frazier TM [1989] . VII . Hazard surveillan :e at 

NIOSH. American Journal of Public Health 79(Suppl) :32-37 . 

Sundin DS, Pedersen DH, and Frazier TM [1986] . Oc :upational 

hazard and health surveillance. American Journal of Ilublic 

Health. 76(9) :1083-1084 . 

Valiante DJ, Richards TB, Kinsley KB [1992] . Silicos~ ; 

surveillance in New Jersey : Targeting workplaces uE ng 

occupational disease and exposure surveillance datz . American 

Journal of Industrial Medicine 21(4) :517-526 . 

The 52,000+ NOES HTML files on the NIOSH websh 3 were 

created by Henry S. Chan, (CIH), and Rolland R Ro. ~ers, Jr., 

(MBA). from data provided by Randy O. Young in D ~cember 

2002. The NOES logo was created by Joseph Caule; ~ 

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