Key Objectives:
The Key Objective of this Round Table is to inform participants on the Third Decade of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA-3) and their opportunity to provide comments to NIOSH on national strategic research objectives designed to reduce occupational injuries and fatalities in the US. Discussion points include: define what is NORA; define what are the proposed Traumatic Injury Prevention (TIP) strategic research objectives; discuss how participants can comment on these TIP strategic research objectives and how they can encourage others to comment, and; discuss What participants can do to become more involved in the NORA-3 process to prevention occupational injuries specifically, and improve occuaptional health overall.
Brief Summary:
NIOSH is currently moving into the 3rd Decade of NORA. As part of this process, national research objectives are being established for 10 industry sectors and 7 health endpoint-specific cross-sectors. Each of the sectors and cross-sectors is to develop a set of national research strategic research objectives during 2017. One of the cross-sectors is traumatic injury prevention (TIP). The NIOSH TIP Cross-sector has established a council of occupational injury prevention subject matter experts tasked with developing the strategic research objectives to prevent occupational injuries in the US. The council consists of internal NIOSH staff and external members representing other federal agencies, employers, labor, public health departments, and academia. The strategic research objectives will be drafted in the Spring of 2017, and then published in the Federal Register for public comment. This round table provides an opportunity to discuss these draft strategic research objectives for the Traumatic Injury Prevention cross-sector with members of CSTE and to seek input from those participating in the roundtable. Participants will be encouraged to share the information provided at this session with other CSTE members who could not attend the roundtable so they can review and comment on these objectives through the Federal Register process. Finally, the session will seek input from participants on other organizations NIOSH should reach out to, both nationally and within specific states, to obtain additional comments on the draft Traumatic Injury Prevention strategic research objectives.