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Reduce occupational skin diseases or disorders among full-time workers.

Target: 47 new cases per 100,000.

Baseline: 67 new cases of occupational skin diseases or disorders per 100,000 full-time workers aged 16 years and older occurred in 1997.

Target setting method: 30 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)

Data source: Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, DOL, BLS.

Data for population groups currently are not collected.