National Occupational Research Agenda

NIOSH, National Occupational Research Agenda, (NIOSH) Publication No. 96-115, 1996. 

NIOSH scientists work in multidisciplinary teams and carry out a focused program of intramural and extramural research to prevent or reduce work-related injury and illness. In 1996, NIOSH and over 500 partners established the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), a framework to guide the efforts of the occupational safety and health community in 21 priority research areas. NORA encompasses research areas such as traumatic injury, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hearing loss, and control technologies. These priority areas were identified through extensive input from NIOSH s federal and nonfederal partners. Since 1996, NIOSH has aligned its intramural and extramural research to increase its investment in NORA priority areas. 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (1996a), National Occupational Research Agenda, http //www.cdc.gov/niosh/norhmpg.html. 

Nonuniform service lives, 2350 NORA (National Occupational Research Agenda), 1168 Nordstrom s, 656 Normal distribution of reliability, 1931, 1932 standard, 2386 Normal time, 1394... 

My first study of the magnitude of the occupational health exposure was made over 25 years ago. I found that occupational illness cases represented about 5% of the total injuries and illnesses in the summaries I reviewed. That percentage has not changed much over the years. Yet, proponents in the occupational health field continue to say, Each day an average of 137 individuals die from work-related diseases (National Occupational Research Agenda, 1996). That works out to 50,005 deaths per year. That s absurd. 

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), part of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in a report prepared by the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), the US oil and gas extraction industry had during 2003-2008, 648 oil and gas extraction worker fatal injuries on the job, resulting in an occupational fatality rate of 29.1 deaths per 100,000 workers—eight times higher than the rate for all US workers. Two goals set by NORA are to, by the year 2020, reduce the occupational fatality rate by 50% and reduce the rate of non-fatal occupational injuries by 50% for workers in the oil and gas extraction industry. 

National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). National oil and gas extraction agenda for occupational safety and health research and practice in the US oil and gas extraction industry. Washington, DC NORA Oil and Gas Extraction CouncU/Center for Disease Control/NIOSH 2011. 

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