NIOSH Exposure Assessment (EXA) Program: response to EXA expert review panel's report.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The NIOSH Exposure Assessment Program (EXAP) is a core and specialty program in the NIOSH Program Portfolio. The NIOSH Program Portfolio is organized into ten Sector Programs that represent industrial sectors and seven health and safety Cross-Sector Programs organized around health outcomes based on the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). As a core and specialty program, the mission of the EXAP is to provide national and international leadership in the development and use of effective exposure assessment strategies and tools to prevent work-related illness and injury. Under the NIOSH Strategic Plan, NIOSH's industrial sectors, health and safety cross-sectors, and core and specialty programs develop, organize, and share research and service goals to promote collaboration, avoid duplicative efforts, and maximize impact. As part of its ongoing program review process, NIOSH used a professional scientific and engineering support contractor to assemble and convene an independent expert panel in 2017 to review the relevance and impact of work conducted in the NIOSH EXAP in the years between 2006 and 2016. The panel consisted of a chair, Dr. Dana Boyd Barr, who in turn recruited the remainder of the independent panel of experts in the content area of exposure assessment, translation science, and program evaluation. NIOSH provided the expert panel with an Exposure Assessment Evidence Package that contained information to demonstrate the relevance and impact of the EXAP's work, with a focus in the areas of methods development and direct-reading methods and sensors. The report described the program's activities, products, and examples of how others have used those products to improve occupational safety and health. EXAP representatives also provided additional detail to the expert panel during an in-person meeting. Using the information from the evidence package and the in-person meeting, the expert panel developed an Exposure Assessment Review Panel Report. During preparation of the report, the expert panelists provided the panel chair with individual scores for EXAP relevance and impact, rationale for those scores, and recommendations. The panel chair averaged the scores and synthesized the rationale and recommendations into the final report. In the area of relevance, the panel assigned the EXAP a score of 4 out of 5 indicating that "The rationale for the activities completed by the program are justified." In the area of impact, the panel assigned the EXAP a score of 4 out of 5, indicating that "The research program has made some contributions and/or demonstrates great potential to contribute to end outcomes or well-accepted intermediate outcomes." This resulted in a total EXAP score of 8 out of a possible 10. The expert panel made eleven specific recommendations regarding opportunities to improve the relevance and impact of the EXAP. The following sections provide the NIOSH EXAP responses, which address how the expert panel's recommendations will inform the future directions of the EXAP.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Paint Preceptorship Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Exposure Assessment National Occupational Research Agenda NORA Review Process Worker Health
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057140
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, contract 200-2016-F-89983, 2018 Nov; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181798/cdc_181798_DS1.pdf
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