Occupational and Environmental Health Nurses Improve Employee Health and Safety
The primary focus of occupational and environmental health nursing is the promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, case management for cost effective disability and workers compensation programs, and protection from occupational and environmental hazards. As business partners to the corporate enterprise and as health care professionals, occupational and environmental health nurses (OHNs) are champions of investing in the health of employee populations. The OHN's goal is for employees to come to work healthy and go home healthier.

Read:
Taking Care of Business: Occuaptional Health Nurses Put Workers First 
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pulse, January 3, 2008)
Editor's Notes: Workplace Nurses are Versatile 
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pulse, January 3, 2008)
An Evaluation of Workplace Safety
(Case In  Point, Dec. 2007/Jan. 2008) 

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (AAOHN) asserts that the OHN, as the recognized leader in workplace health and safety, is in a position to:

• Collaborate with employees to develop model behaviors of good health
• Set expectations that employees self-manage their physical, mental and emotional health
• Leverage health promotion and disease management programs and services to increase employee accountability for health
• Serve as a health advocate and expert to internal and external groups
• Provide expert and efficient management of occupational and non-occupational injury/illness leading to reduced time away from work and cost savings