| ABLES Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program |
MMP Mexican Migration Project | |
| ACA Affordable Care Act | µg/dL Micrograms per deciliter | |
| ACS American Community Survey | µg/m3 Micrograms per meter cubed | |
| ATUS American Time Use Survey | MSD Musculoskeletal disorders | |
| BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis | NABTU North America’s Building Trades Unions |
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| BeS Beryllium sensitivity | NAICS North American Industry Classification System |
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| BLL Blood lead level | NASI National Academy of Social Insurance |
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| BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics | NCHS National Center for Health Statistics | |
| BMI Body mass index | NCS National Compensation Survey |
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| BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System |
NEP Nano-enhanced products | |
| BTMed Building Trades National Medical Screening Program |
NEC Not elsewhere classified | |
| CBD Chronic beryllium disease | NHIS National Health Interview Survey | |
| CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | NIHL Noise-induced hearing loss | |
| CES Current Employment Statistics | NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
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| CFOI Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries | NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative |
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| CHAMPUS Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services | NORA National Occupational Research Agenda | |
| CHAMPVA Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs | OES Occupational Employment Statistics | |
| COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | OHL Occupational Hearing Loss | |
| CPI Consumer Price Index | OIICS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System | |
| CPI-W Urban Wage Consumer Price Index | O*NET Occupational Information Network | |
| CPS Current Population Survey | OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration | |
| CWCS Center for Workers’ Compensation Studies | OTI OSHA Training Institute | |
| DAFW Days away from work | PEL Permissible exposure limit | |
| DALY Disability-adjusted life year | PFAS Personal fall arrest systems | |
| dBA A-weighted decibels | PPACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act |
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| DOE U.S. Department of Energy | PPE Personal protective equipment | |
| DOL U.S. Department of Labor | PRC Pew Research Center | |
| ECI Employment Cost Index | PtD Prevention through Design | |
| eLCOSH Electrical Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health |
QCEW Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages | |
| EPA Environmental Protection Agency | RAPIDS Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Management Data System |
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| ENM Engineered nanomaterials | REL Recommended exposure level | |
| ETA Employment Training | RNLE Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation | |
| FRED Federal Reserve Economic Data | r2p Research to practice | |
| FTE Full-time equivalent workers | SAA State Apprenticeship Agency | |
| GDP Gross Domestic Product | SAVE Safety voice for ergonomics project | |
| GDPDEF Gross Domestic Product: Implicit Price Deflator |
SBO Survey of Business Owners | |
| GSA Government Services Administration |
SIC Standard Industrial Classification | |
| HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus | SOC Standard Occupational Classification | |
| HPD Hearing protection devices | SOII Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses | |
| HRS Health and Retirement Study | SVEP Severe Violator Enforcement Program | |
| ILO International Labour Organization | SWR Serious, willful, and repeat | |
| IMIS Integrated Management Information System | TLV Threshold limit value | |
| IRS Internal Revenue Service | TWI Temporary Worker Initiative | |
| ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification | USGBC U.S. Green Building Council | |
| JOLTS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey | WBV Whole body vibration | |
| LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design | WHD Wage and Hour Division | |
| LEV Local exhaust ventilation | WMSD Work-related musculoskeletal disorder | |
| MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey | ||