[...]... Management System National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health National Occupational Injury Research Symposia National Occupational Research Agenda NCIPC NEISS NFPA NHTSA NIH NIMS NIOSH NOIRS NORA A b b r e v i at i o n s and A cr o n y m s NRC NTOF NTSB National Research Council National Traumatic Occupational Fatality National Transportation Safety Board OISPA OSH Act OSHA Occupational Injury Surveillance... National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the federal agency tasked with conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of occupational injury and illness The Institute of Medicine convened a committee of experts to review NIOSH s Traumatic Injury (TI) Research Program The committee evaluated the relevance and impact of the TI Research Program’s efforts for the. .. Framework for the Review of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health B Methods and Information Gathering C Information Provided by the NIOSH Traumatic Injury Research Program D NIOSH TI Research Program Draft Strategic Goals for the Future E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members 111 127 137 182 189 191 203 Tables, Figures, and Boxes TABLES 1-1 Matrix Management... research and information dissemination In focusing on occupational traumatic injury, NIOSH should continue to foster and build relationships with Summary other agencies, (e.g., the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Injury Control and Prevention, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Defense, the Health Resources and. .. Agricultural Statistics Service National Association of Tower Erectors National Agricultural Workers Survey National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety National Center for Injury Prevention and Control National Electronic Injury Surveillance System National Fire Protection Association National Highway Traffic Safety Administration National Institutes of Health National Incident... Introduction T he National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has requested that the National Academies, through the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), conduct a series of reviews of its research portfolio The charge is discussed in detail in a subsequent section, but in general it is to evaluate the relevance and impact of a NIOSH research program and to provide... ergonomics, and bioengineering The committee evaluated the TI Research Program for the period 1996-2005, the first decade of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) The information evaluated consisted primarily of materials—organized by traumatic injury goals and subgoals—included in an evidence package provided by NIOSH to the The Framework Committee liaison is a member of the National Academies... functions of regulation and enforcement from NIOSH s research mandate OSHA’s mission is to “assure the safety and health of America’s workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in work-place safety and health. ” Charge to the Committee NIOSH has requested that the National Academies, through the National. .. recommendations for future research This report contains a review and evaluation of the NIOSH Traumatic Injury (TI) Research Program NIOSH defines work-related traumatic injury as “any damage inflicted to the body by energy transfer during work with a short duration between exposure and the health event” (NIOSH, 2007a, p 3) Safety research is an interchangeable term in NIOSH publications for traumatic injury. .. The TI Research Program needs to develop a means to increase the pipeline of traumatic injury researchers In order to do so, the committee suggests stressing the technical expertise required to work in traumatic injury, the interdisciplinary nature of successful traumatic injury research, and the possibility of “making a real difference” with traumatic injury research 7 Increase the visibility of traumatic . Review the NIOSH Traumatic Injury Research Program Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice Traumatic Injury Research at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for. Traumatic Injury Research at NIOSH. Committee to Review the NIOSH Traumatic Injury Research Program. Rpt. No. 6, Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and. National Institutes of Health NIMS National Incident Management System NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NOIRS National Occupational Injury Research Symposia NORA National