U.S. Army Occupational Health Management Information System Health Hazard Information Module Version 2.2

Abstract

The Occupational Health Management Information System (OHMIS) is the Department of the Army's corporate standard for automated, occupational health management software. The Health Hazard Information Module Version 2.2 (HHIM) is the industrial hygiene management tool within OHMIS. The design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the software and hardware involved an extensive, 14-step process. HHIM contains valuable data pertaining to demographics, facilities, engineering controls, personal protective clothing and equipment, hazard inventories, priority action, exposure potential, personnel, risk assessment, air samples, bulk samples, noise samples, industrial hygiene instrumentation, and calibration. The user enters the coded survey data into the software via a keyboard, and subsequently has the ability to generate standard, detailed, or customized reports. Biannually, the users download their personal computer data to diskettes, and the OHMIS programmers upload the information to the OHMIS mainframe computer. The data are vital to industrial hygiene, occupational health, safety, and environmental programs army-wide. HHIM provides information that enables the industrial hygiene program manager to develop a planned approach to implementing an effective industrial hygiene program. It identifies potentially exposed workers and their associated health hazard exposure levels. The software provides occupational health personnel with information that facilitates the assignment of appropriate, hazard-based medical surveillance. HHIM allows for the quick identification of uncontrolled workplace hazards, the delineation of required control measures, and the status of corrective hazard abatement actions. It can be used to determine health hazard education requirements and to defend and justify program resources. Morgan, D.A.: U.S. Army Occupational Health Management Information System Health Hazard Information Module Version 2.2. Appl. Occup. Environ. Hyg. 10(4):283–288; 1995.