Various people may request assistance from the epidemiologist and his staff. Cooperation with the occupational medicine specialists can be quite productive in identifying job-related risk factors for disease, and non-medical personnel such as the members of the accident prevention team may request assistance with the more technical aspects of statistical and epidemiological analysis of their data. In addition, the military epidemiologist provides consultation in the form of preventive health and immunization plans tailored specifically for deployed individuals or entire units.