Consulting industrial hygienists may be enlisted for this key step. The walk-through team should understand the operations well enough to imagine scenarios that might result in injury or illness. Researchers can describe the nature of the research protocols, while veterinarians or animal care technicians can describe the work of animal husbandry. Individuals from the occupational health care activity provide a complementary perspective, having taken occupational histories from workers. The administration activity can consider the identified hazards in the context of long term facilities planning as well as short-term resource allocation.
Workers are an indispensable source of information about hazards.
Consultation with workers can occur during the walk-through, or at the time of workplace monitoring or healthcare visits. Institutional trends for occupational health and safety may be estimated from several sources. Care for events such as eye injuries may be sent directly to subspcialists, and thus be outside the occupational health center database. The occupational health center log lists all visits to the health center. An additional source of information is the OSHA 200 log.